[PD] audio bit resolution in Pd

[William Huston]

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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