OT: I never knew...

Not that I can help you get it out of google, but...pi in hex to 32 significant digits is 3.243f6a8885a308d313198a2e0370734. This gives (1)10010010000111111011010101000100010000101101000110000100011010... as mantissa (the 1 in parens is the hidden bit). The exponent value depends on the number size (because that determines the exponent field bias). The upshot of all this: (single) 0 10000000 10010010000111111011011 (double) 0 10000000000 1001001000011111101101010100010001000010110100011000 By way of comparison, in binary, 22/7 = 11.0010010010010010010010010010010010010010010010010010010... 355/113 = 11.0010010000111111011011110000001001000011111101101111000... pi = 11.0010010000111111011010101000100010000101101000110000100... /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse(a)rodents.montreal.qc.ca / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B