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Understanding Floating Point Formats
Under ordinary circumstances, you don't have to know or care how numbers are represented within your programs. However, when you are transferring data files that contain numbers, you will have to convert if the storage formats are not identical. If the numbers are just integers, that's fairly easy because the only differences will be the length and the byte order: how many bytes the number takes up, and whether it is stored lsb or msb (least signifacant byte or most significant byte first). Once you know that, conversion is trivial.
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"Why does (Unix/Linux) make things so hard? That 'vi' is so primitive - they should have a word processor!"
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Why use that primitive Vi? Sometimes after leading some customer through a vi session to fix their problem I'll hear something like this:
"Why does (Unix/Linux) make things so hard? That 'vi' is so primitive - they should have a word processor!"
Billion dollar opportunity? Phooey! Selling expertise is an honest living. You aren't enriching yourself by abusing others. With the incredible communications the Internet has brought us, small groups and even individuals can compete with giant corporations - this is a very different world.
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