Floating point data -- RPG400-L

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Subject: Floating point data
From: "Shen Jianjun" <ipacsjj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 22:42:11 +0800

The length of the floating point field must be specified

as either 4 or 8 bytes. The range of values allowed for

a positive floating-point field are:

4 bytes 1.175 494 4 E-38 (MIN)

3.402 823 5 E+38 (MAX)

8 bytes 2.225 073 858 507 201 E-308 (MIN)

1.797 693 134 862 315 E+308 (MAX)

My question is: how it calculates?

Thanks.

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