PHPfreak12

thank you very much for responding. but can you be more detailed? don't respond if I am asking too much. thanks

I am on the first year at college studying computer science and they sent me to write a php program that can change a decimal number to IEEE754 standard on 16bits. I know most of you will laugh because it is very easy but I need help. this is what i got so far. ALL i need is how to control the mantissa.. you know, save 10 numbers.. and how to control the while loop so he stops when i have 10 spots on mantissa.. <?php echo "Enter any number\n"; $number=trim(fgets(STDIN)); $low=floor($number); $decimal=$number - $low; $real=decbin($low); while(0<$decimal<1) { $mantissa[]=$decimal*2; } echo "\n"; ?>