Date   : Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:56:18 +0100
From   : info@... (Sprow)
Subject: Converting numeric representations

In article <080430002502@...>,
   Jonathan Graham Harston <jgh@...> wrote:
> What's the process of converting a floating point value to it's
> integer representation (eg converting 0.5x2^5 to 16) called, and
> the reverse process (eg converting 16 to 0.5x2^5)?

Casting (both ways)?
Truncation (float -> integer)?
Intejification such that the number is mantisified,
Sprow.