[om] OM Floats (XML Representation)

[Richard Fateman]

Oh, you could also specify a radix, if you wanted to be "more general".
Thus the radix might NOT be 2, but 10 or something else. In the interests
of making OM yet more verbose, you could store the radix in every number.

But then didn't I see a CD for arbitrary precision floats?  Why not just 
let the recipient of the message decide whether it is going to be stored 
as an IEEE flt or not.

RJF


Richard Fateman wrote:

> How about if you decide that IEEE numbers are not numbers at all.
>
> Ordinary numbers of limited precision can be represented as <sign> 
> <fraction_part> <exponent>,   


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