METHOD FOR REPRESENTING INTEGER AND FLOATING POINT NUMBERS IN A BINARY ORDERABLE FORMAT

摘要

A method is described for converting standard integer and floating point formatted numbers to an improved integer and floating point numbers which are binary orderable. Standard integers are represented in two's complement format, to make standard integers binary orderable, the sign bit is flipped. To make floating point numbers binary orderable the implicit leading bit of the mantissa needs to be made explicit. Next the mantissa is converted to two's complement format, and the sign bit is flipped. Finally, for negative numbers the exponent is inverted, or XORed with all 1s.