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LabVIEW
float to hex string
Hi Partha,
you can also use hex notation for floats! (You can use any base for floats - integers are just some special floats!)
Example: 24.25 (base10) = 18.4 (base16) = 11000.01 (base2) = 30.2 (base8) = 22.02(...) (base3)
you can also use hex notation for floats! (You can use any base for floats - integers are just some special floats!)
Example: 24.25 (base10) = 18.4 (base16) = 11000.01 (base2) = 30.2 (base8) = 22.02(...) (base3)
Hi GerdW,
But you cannot enable the HEX Radix for a Sgl/Dbl, right... ?! 
How can you display the Float in its equivalent HEEX, then? 
I think I m not getting your point still. 
Can you elaborate a bit more?
Hi Partha,
yes, the controls/indicators for floats don't provide a hex display. On the frontpanel you see a decimal representation whereas LabView (or the CPU) is using a (kind of) binary representation for calculation...
But mom was asking for a "conversion to hex"! And you can convert floats to hex "display" (string!): division by base for integer part, multiplication by base for fractional part, concat all digits to a string!
Message Edited by GerdW on 03-25-2008 10:38 AM
yes, the controls/indicators for floats don't provide a hex display. On the frontpanel you see a decimal representation whereas LabView (or the CPU) is using a (kind of) binary representation for calculation...
But mom was asking for a "conversion to hex"! And you can convert floats to hex "display" (string!): division by base for integer part, multiplication by base for fractional part, concat all digits to a string!
Message Edited by GerdW on 03-25-2008 10:38 AM
Would that be a bad time to bring up Endianness? 😄
It could certainly be an issue when flattening multibyte data to a string.
