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H IEEE Floating Point Formats

  (The  material in this Appendix is not part of this standard; it is adapted from the IEEE-754 floating point  standard [15] and provided for informational purposes. It is not intended to be a comprehensive description of the IEEE formats; readers should refer to the IEEE standard.)

FITS recognizes all IEEE basic formats, including the special values.



 


5/13/1999