Floating point data

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I'm not sure what you mean by "how it calculates", but assuming it has
to do with how those min/max points are determined then the range covered
for normalized numbers is determined as:

4 Bytes: 2**-126  <= M <= (2-2**-23)(2**127)

8 Bytes: 2**-1022 <= M <= (2-2**-52)(2**1023)

Bruce

>
>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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