diff --git a/xml/System/Half.xml b/xml/System/Half.xml index 140d22feeba..176a0a9c7ad 100644 --- a/xml/System/Half.xml +++ b/xml/System/Half.xml @@ -34,8 +34,19 @@ - An IEEE 754 compliant type. - To be added. + Represents a half-precision floating-point number. + + value type represents a half-precision 16-bit number with values ranging from negative 65,504 to positive 65,504, as well as positive or negative zero, , , and not a number (). + +This is an IEEE 754-compliant type. + +]]> + + diff --git a/xml/System/Single.xml b/xml/System/Single.xml index c7ef6409573..2258d0c6389 100644 --- a/xml/System/Single.xml +++ b/xml/System/Single.xml @@ -87,17 +87,17 @@ ## Remarks The value type represents a single-precision 32-bit number with values ranging from negative 3.402823e38 to positive 3.402823e38, as well as positive or negative zero, , , and not a number (). It is intended to represent values that are extremely large (such as distances between planets or galaxies) or extremely small (such as the molecular mass of a substance in kilograms) and that often are imprecise (such as the distance from earth to another solar system). The type complies with the IEC 60559:1989 (IEEE 754) standard for binary floating-point arithmetic. - This topic consists of the following sections: + This article consists of the following sections: -- [Floating-point representation and precision](#Precision) +- [Floating-point representation and precision](#Precision) -- [Testing for equality](#Equality) +- [Testing for equality](#Equality) -- [Floating-point values and exceptions](#Exceptions) +- [Floating-point values and exceptions](#Exceptions) -- [Type conversion and the Single structure](#Conversion) +- [Type conversion and the Single structure](#Conversion) -- [Floating-point functionality](#Functionality) +- [Floating-point functionality](#Functionality) provides methods to compare instances of this type, to convert the value of an instance to its string representation, and to convert the string representation of a number to an instance of this type. For information about how format specification codes control the string representation of value types, see [Formatting Types](/dotnet/standard/base-types/formatting-types), [Standard Numeric Format Strings](/dotnet/standard/base-types/standard-numeric-format-strings), and [Custom Numeric Format Strings](/dotnet/standard/base-types/custom-numeric-format-strings).