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by trynton 1937 days ago
> 0 is actually what I'd expect as an answer. Even on very modern Python you get

Given a four byte mantissa, it should be 1 for anything under and equal to 2^32 and 0 for anything over 2^32. Instead it outputted some random number. A bug in checking the flags or some-such. Or maybe a bug in the float to string routine.

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The sign takes one bit off the mantissa.