[linux-audio-dev] Fixed vs. floating point

[Simon Jenkins]

On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 21:00 +0200, cpolymeris at gmx.net wrote:

> [...]If numbers
> from binary 0.1 to 1.0 are represented using 24 bits (sign bit + mantissa, I
> think the implicit 1 does not count)

You could represent numbers to 1 bit of precision using a zero bit
mantissa (ie exponent only) format. So the implicit 1 definitely does
count.

Simon.