msbin to ieee

John Machin sjmachin at lexicon.net
Thu May 10 08:18:39 EDT 2007


On May 10, 8:48 pm, imageguy <imageguy1... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 6, 6:44 pm, revuesbio <revues... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi
> > Does anyone have the python version of the conversion from msbin to
> > ieee?
> > Thank u
>
> Not sure if this helps, but I think this thread has the answer;http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/...
>
> Check out the response from Bengt Richter.  His function did the right
> thing.

Yes, Bengt's function did the right thing on the input for that
particular problem, which involved IEEE 64-bit floating point numbers
stored in little-endian format.

The current problem involves 32-bit MBF (Microsoft Binary/Basic
Floating-point/Format) numbers.

Different problem.




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