[PD] audio bit resolution in Pd
William Huston
williamahuston at gmail.com
Wed Apr 22 20:44:25 CEST 2015
On Wednesday, April 22, 2015, Jamie Bullock <jamie at jamiebullock.com> wrote:
>
> Pd is 32-bit *floating point*, so you have 32-bit resolution between -1
and 1.
I don't think that's right.
The range of a single precision floating point number is from
-3.4028234 × 10E38 to 3.4028234 × 10E38 (not from -1 to 1)
There are only 23 bits of precision for the mantissa + 1 for sign in a
single precision float.
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