how to convert a 16-bit or 64-bit signed floting point to binary

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masters~ now I'm facing a problem that i have to convert some signed floating point numbers to binary, like -4.182068393394077e-04, or 1.3489.
do anybody have some idea or advices?
thanks
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Yang
Yang on 28 Mar 2013
i don't know what it called in english. what is the type of the number -4.4367e-04 called in english? floating poiont? signed?
Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 28 Mar 2013
I have never encountered an unsigned floating point representation. I have encountered unsigned fixed point representations.
The closest you could get to -4.4367e-04 with a signed floating point representation would be to use a scheme with 1 sign bit, 5 exponent bits, 1 "hidden bit", and 10 bits of mantissa. That would allow you to express -(836/1024 + 1) / 2^12, or approximately -4.4346E-04. Notice this only gives you a few decimal places.
5 digits of accuracy requires 16 or 17 bits and the bits for the exponent. 1 sign bit, 5 bits of exponent, 1 hidden bit, 15 bits of mantissa = 21 bits of representation.

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 28 Mar 2013
dec2bin(typecast(TheNumber, 'uint16'), 16) - '0'
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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 31 Mar 2013
You need binary for the channel encoder. That is
dec2bin(typecast(TheNumber, 'uint16'), 16) - '0'
You can reshape() that to vector form. Just be sure to reshape() it back before using bin2dec() to convert the binary to numeric form.

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Jan
Jan on 28 Mar 2013
What exactly is a "binary stream"? It could be a vector of doubles, which contains only ones and zeros. Of a vector of type LOGICAL, or UINT8. Or remember, that all numbers are stored in binary format on a computer, so perhaps this is enough already:
x = pi;
x_bin = typecast(x, 'uint8')
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Yang
Yang on 28 Mar 2013
thank you so much. the friend upside gave me a code so i convert a vector of floating point to a vector which only ones and zeros. what could i do to convert it back~
Yang
Yang on 28 Mar 2013
couas i want to convert a celp parameter vector into binary stream so that i could input it to a Turbo encoder to do some tests for my graduation design. is that clear about "binary stream"?

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