From: Sander Land <sander.land@...>
Date: 2006-11-15T05:53:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Is 2.0 Integer or Float?

On 11/14/06, Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@path.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> How does that work? Is there an 11-bit pattern that signifies "use the
> remaining 53 bits as a integer"? Do math library functions respect this?

53 bits is just the mantissa size.
imagine using scientific notation a * 10^b with a<1 and 3 decimal
digits, this gives you accurate integers up to 1000.
999  => 0.999 * 10^3  exact
1001=> 0.100 * 10^4 overflowed