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The delta packing method

In the delta packing method, the user has to supply a floating point variable (delta). All numbers below this (in absolute value) are treated as zero and ignored. The output bank has 3 extra words.

  1. The number of data words in the original bank
  2. delta
  3. the number of words stored after the zero-suppression.


Janne Saarela
Tue May 16 10:31:09 METDST 1995