Given a floating point number, I would like to print the significand and the exponent in binary. This is for teaching purposes. I guess I can use mathematical functions to get them but on one hand it seems that this cannot be the easiest way and on the other hand it may introduce some error. Is th…

Use exponent and significand to get exponent and mantissa of a float. There is also bitstring which will return the binary representation as a string.

How to get the significand and the exponent of a floating point number?

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gmouts October 14, 2019, 1:55pm 3

Oh, that was quite obvious I guess

Thanks!

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How to get the significand and the exponent of a floating point number?

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