all bits zero?

[Henry Spencer]

In article <568 at atcmpe.atcmp.nl> jc at atcmp.nl (Jan Christiaan van Winkel) writes:
>And how about floats/double-s? I know the IEEE standard says that an exponent
>of all zeroes signifies the number 0.0, but how about other float notations?

No promises are made about floating-point representations.  Only the integers
are constrained to be represented in a known form, partly because the bit
operators don't make much sense otherwise.
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