Re: [Haskell-cafe] floating point operations and representation

On Mar 12, 2008, at 8:35 PM, Jacob Schwartz wrote:

My second question is how to get at the IEEE bit representation for a Double.

My (rhetorical) question on this front isn't "how do I get the representation," but "why is it so hard and non-portable to get the representation sensibly"? A candidate for standardization, surely? -Jan-Willem Maessen