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Postings from February 2001
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 09:28:32PM +0000, nick@ing-simmons.net wrote: > >Etc etc etc. Checking that a float is an integer is > >a non-trivial and a very expensive operation. > > No it isn't (at least for IEEE). It is a simple matter of comparing > the (binary) exponent with the (known, constant) number of bits in the mantissa. > and then seeing if there are any non-zero bits to the right of the radix point. > (am I missing something here?). AFAIK, there is no API to extract the exponent and the mantissa from a double. Did I miss it? Ilya