Suppose I have 0.625 as a floating point is 0b.101, so if I want the first two bits of that as an integer i.e. 0b10 = 2, how can I achieve this in python?
I've tried taking the number to a power of 2 and casting to an int, so if I want n bits I do int(0.625*(2**n)). But that is not working for me.
The problem occurs when I have a number greater than 1 so 24.548838022726972 will give me 392 rather than 12 for the first four bits. (24.548838022726972 = 0b11000.100011001...)
解决方案
If you want the n most significant bits, one way to start is to use math.frexp to normalise your number to lie in the range [0.5, 1.0). Then multiplying by 2**n and taking the integer part will give you what you need.
>>> import math
>>> math.frexp(24.54883) # significand and exponent
(0.7671509375, 5)
>>> math.frexp(24.54883)[0] # just the significand
0.7671509375
>>> int(math.frexp(24.54883)[0] * 2**4) # most significant 4 bits
12
Instead of explicitly computing a power of 2 to scale by, you could use the math.ldexp function to do the second part of the operation.
>>> int(math.ldexp(math.frexp(24.54883)[0], 4))
12