alt Hacker NewsYou don’t divide a float by 256 by shifting it right eight bits; that would yield complete garbage. You subtract 8 from the exponent, then check if you got an underflow.
You don’t divide a float by 256 by shifting it right eight bits; that would yield complete garbage. You subtract 8 from the exponent, then check if you got an underflow.
Same point; divide by power of 2 is a fast subtraction operation in float world, while divide by 255 shits all over the whole float