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Encodeing of compressed intervals

On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 21:23:39 -0400 I had some typos (bad cut&paste):
>     atoff("nan(8)")     7F80 0008                  7FC4 8000
>     atoff("nan(16)")    7F80 0010                  7FC2 4000

This should have been:
      atoff("nan(8)")     7F80 0008                  7FC4 0000
      atoff("nan(16)")    7F80 0010                  7FC2 0000

(I had also mis-spelled PA-RISC as PA-RISK -- no slight intended!)

Finally, about those messy-looking DPD encodings:  if the decorations
are encoded with quantum 1 (as would be usual for small integers), the
hex dump would actually look quite familiar as decimal numbers.  That's
because 0 through 79 are encoded such that the bottom two hexits of the
hexadecimal reprentation can be interpreted as if it were decimal:
   DFP32(79) = 0x22500079 (in DPD encoding)
(Normalized to full precision looks ugly: DFP32(79.00000) = 0x3E02300)

So much for vicarious entertainment...

Michel.
---Sent: 2014-06-27 03:32:28 UTC