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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2005
Robert S. Howard, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Robert S. Howard, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Other;
Abstract
A floating-point number is encoded into a binary string. A left-to-right comparison of the binary string determines relative magnitude of the floating-point number. If the floating-point number is negative, then take an absolute value of the floating-point number. The resulting binary string conversion is then complemented. If the floating-point number is zero, then a value for the binary string is assigned. The value is a '1' followed by a plurality of '0's. A portion of each byte of the binary string determines whether another byte follows in the binary string. A value of a bit of each byte of the binary string determines whether another byte follows. In another aspect, the floating-point number encodes to a binary string having a length as a function of the mantissa and exponent of the floating-point number.