double floating point numbers in Scilab

[Stéphane Mottelet]

Hi all.

Is there a Scilab function which returns the hexadecimal
string corresponding to a given 64 bits float ?

This can be easily done in C by using the
%x conversion char, i.e.

printf("%x\n",(double)1.0/3.0);

produces :

3fd55555

Why does the Scilab printf make an integer
conversion,

-->printf("%x\n",1.0/3.0);       
0

althoug this is not really needed since the dec2hex() macro
already works for that ?

S.
 



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Stéphane Mottelet
Laboratoire de Mathématiques Appliquées
Université de Technologie de Compiègne
http://www.lmac.utc.fr/~mottelet