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From: Tim Pierce <twpierce@midway.uchicago.edu>
Subject: Re: [help] How to dump floating point numbers
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In article <480sl0$ghq@nunki.usc.edu>, Jun Chen <junc@nunki.usc.edu> wrote:

>Thanks to all who replied to my posting.
>In my original posting, what I meant was actually saving
>floating point numbers in IEEE standard format so that programs
>written in other language can read. Saving as several integers 
>won't do that.

Huh?

You can't store anything in a (conventional, von Neumann) computer
without encoding it as a series of integers.  Not even the IEEE
can do this.

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