so even if it's in a 32 bit machine or a 64 bit machine.. it will still work?? because I read on wikipedia about the IEEE and they mentioned the layout for floating point number is different in 64 bits:
the mantissa is at bits 0-51 and the exponent is from 52-63 and the sign bit is 64. I read it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_fl...point_standard
