Floating point number format?

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Floating point number format?

Post #1by Brendan » 13.02.2004, 20:50

Are the floating point numbers in stars.dat in the IEEE 754 format? Here is a web page about it in case anyone wants to know what it is. http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/754/

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Post #2by chris » 13.02.2004, 22:22

Yes, the floating point values for RA, declination, and parallax are stored as IEEE 754 single precision floating point values with little-endian byte ordering.

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