I'm sorry I mistake the function name, the function is
floatToRawIntBits(), it convert ieee 754 floating point number to
integer, e.g. if f1>f2 then floatToRawBits(f1) > floatToRawBits(f1)
I want convert floating point number to sortable string to index in
Lucene, so I want first to conver the floating point number to integer
first, and than convert the integer to sortable string?
The following two functions may be useful; they do more-or-less the
same thing, but returning a string instead of an integer.
Note that this property: f1>f2 => floatToRawBits(f1) >
floatToRawBits(f2), only holds for nonnegative numbers; this code
has the same restriction.
The code assumes a few things: float(repr(x))==x for 0.5<=x<1 (that
is, repr(x) is exact in that range); the maximum double value has an
exponent (as given by frexp) less than 5000; the minimum positive
value has an exponent greater than -5000; 0 is the only number having
mantissa==0; and surely I'm assuming many more but I'm not aware of
them. I think it's not dependent on a particular FP hardware or representation.
Beasts like denormals, INFs and NaNs are not considered at all. It
appears to work OK for "normal" numbers, but I've not checked all
corner cases. It was only tested on Windows XP.
After such long disclaimer... I hope it's useful
--- begin fpsrepr.py ---
import math
def float2srepr(f):
"""Convert a floating point number into a string representation
which can be sorted lexicographically maintaining the original
numerical order (only for numbers >= 0).
That is, given f1,f2 >= 0, f1<f2 <=> float2srepr(f1)<float2srepr(f2)
Denormals, INFs, NaNs are not handled at all!
format: Seeeem*
S : sign, "0" for +, else "-"
eeee: exponent + 5000 (never negative)
m* : mantissa, one or more chars as needed,
0.5<=mantissa<1, without the leading "0."
"""
try: m, e = math.frexp(f)
except ValueError,E:
E.args = list(E.args) + [repr(f)]
raise
if m < 0:
sign = '-'
m = -m
else:
sign = '0'
e = e+5000
if m==0.0: e = 0
return "%s%04.4d%s" % (sign, e, repr(m)[2:])
def srepr2float(s):
"""Convert a string in the format used by float2srepr
into a floating point number.
srepr2float(float2srepr(x)) == x
"""
sign, e, m = s[0], s[1:5], s[5:]
neg = sign == '-'
e = int(e)
e = e-5000
m = float('0.'+m)
if m==0: f = 0
else: f = math.ldexp(m, e)
if neg: f = -f
return f
# test
def find_eps(): # smallest x such 1+x!=1
prev, curr = 1.0, 0.5
while 1.0+curr > 1.0 and curr < prev:
prev = curr
curr /= 2.0
return prev
def find_minf(): # smallest x such x>0
prev, curr = 1.0, 0.5
while curr > 0.0 and curr < prev:
prev = curr
curr /= 2
return prev
eps = find_eps()
print "eps=%r %r" % (eps, 1.0+eps)
minf = find_minf()
print "minf=%r %r" % (minf, -minf)
values = [0,0.1,0.2,0.3,0.4,0.5,0.6,0.7,0.8,0.9,
1.0,1.0+eps,1.0+2*eps,1.0-eps,1.0-2*eps,
2,3,10,10.0000001,10.00000000001,
123.456,1234.567,12345.678,123456.789,1.234e10,
123412341234,123412341234123412341234.0,1.234e20,
1e100,1e200,1e300,math.pi,math.e]
values += [1.0/x for x in values if x>0] + [eps, minf]
values += [-x for x in values]
values = sorted(values)
for x in values:
s = float2srepr(x)
xr = srepr2float(s)
print '%-30r %s' % (x, s)
assert x==xr, '%r!=%r' % (x, xr)
f2svalues = [float2srepr(x) for x in values if x>=0]
s2fvalues = [srepr2float(x) for x in sorted(f2svalues)]
assert s2fvalues == sorted(s2fvalues), s2fvalues
--- end fpsrepr.py ---
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Gabriel Genellina
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