<div dir="ltr">(-1)^sign * significand * radix^exponent<div><br></div><div>Significand is not like the other two, I guess, since nothing is raised to it as a power...</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 11:42 AM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br></span> A floating point number is made up<br>
of three parts, and one part *is* not like the other ones. Furthermore,<br>
using an enum doesn't change that one (ahem) bit.<br></blockquote></div></div></div>