Decimal string to floating point conversion with correct half-to-even rounding
9il
ilyayaroshenko at gmail.com
Mon Jun 22 12:04:13 UTC 2020
On Monday, 22 June 2020 at 10:53:02 UTC, Dukc wrote:
> On Sunday, 21 June 2020 at 15:24:14 UTC, 9il wrote:
> Can mir_parse handle other bases than decimal?
No, only the decimal basis is supported for now. Support for
hexadecimal FP/integer parsing can be added though.
The basic stuff for correct FP hexadecimal parsing is done: we
can convert a big integer view to FP number with half-to-even
rounding.
So the algorithm would look like:
1. Parse hexadecimal big integer
2. Parse exponent
3. Cast big integer to `Fp` with a specific number of meaningful
bits (its already implemented)
4. Add exponent to `Fp`'s exponent, and cast the result to a
hardware floating point type.
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