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David Rubin  
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 More options Oct 1 2003, 2:24 pm
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From: David Rubin <bogus_addr...@nomail.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 14:15:55 -0400
Local: Wed, Oct 1 2003 2:15 pm
Subject: Re: 8.8 notation....
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Christopher Benson-Manica wrote:

> Joona I Palaste <pala...@cc.helsinki.fi> spoke thus:

> > This would make 0x0101 and 0x010A the same thing, yesno?

> Hm, yes, if he's trying to convert these to floats.

> > And there
> > would be no way to represent 1.01, yesno?

> Again, yes, although I'm not sure he wants to.  The format itself makes sense
> (although I don't know what one would use it for).

The format is kind of lame IMO. Why not use 0x[0-9A-Z]{2}[0-9]{2} to
represent 000.00 to 255.99? This is only slightly less efficient, but
much more straightforward.

/david

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