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Clib Get Floating Point Number Method

The Clib Get Floating Point Number method calculates a floating-point number given a mantissa and an exponent. It returns the result of the calculation. It calculates a floating-point number from the following equation:

mantissa multiplied by 2 ^ exponent

This method is the inverse of the Get Normalized Mantissa method. For more information, see Clib Get Normalized Mantissa Method.

Format

Clib.ldexp(mantissa, exponent)

Table 166 describes the arguments for the Clib Get Floating Point Number method.