Somebody please help me out here. I'm trying to convert a number from VAX floating point to a decimal value. Now, I know that in the bit representation above, bit 1 is the sign bit, bits 2 through 9 ...
decimal: 16592 hex: 40D0 bin: 0100 0000 1101 0000 S EEEEEEEE FFFFFFF 0 10000001 1010000 + 2^(129-127) * 1.101 = + 6.5 ...