10 Apr
2010
10 Apr
'10
8:59 a.m.
Raymond Yau wrote:
Floating point numbers provide a way to trade off signal-to-noise ratio for an increase in dynamic range. For n bit floating-point numbers, with n-m bits in the mantissa and m bits in the exponent
That is an excellent point ! It is however not how data is stored on CD's, nor sent to many soundcards :-(
Werner,-