"Jon Harris" <goldentully@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "JeffS87" <jeffs87@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:20040722202627.19313.00002389@mb-m04.aol.com...
> > >When IEEE floating-point to signed fixed-point, >floating point gives you
>=
> > >25-bits, so "essentially", yes.
> >
> > http://research.microsoft.com/%7Ehollasch/cgindex/coding/ieeefloat.html
> >
> > If the mantissa is 23 bits, how can it be >= 25 bits?
> >
> > Jeff
>
> The "hidden bit" (which I didn't see mentioned in the site above)
OK, I found it--it is referred to as the "implicit leading bit" in the site
above.