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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
John W. Phillips, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/38 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/38 ;
Abstract
A method for distinguishing an ordinary binary floating point number from an extraordinary binary floating point number is provided, the method including adding 1 to a B-bit biased exponent of a binary floating point number to produce a (B+1)-bit augmented exponent and sign-extending the augmented exponent to produce a (B+n)-bit transformed exponent. The method also includes testing the (B+n)-bit transformed exponent to determine if the (B+n)-bit transformed exponent is less than 2.