Hexadecimal floating point

2 · John Cook · July 28, 2020, 1:40 p.m.
Programming language support for hexadecimal integers is very common. Support for hexadecimal floating point numbers is not. It’s a common convention to put 0x in front of a number to indicate that it is an integer written as an integer literal. For example, 0x12 is not a dozen, but a dozen and a half. The […]...