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Idiom #248 Construct a 64-bit floating-point value

Construct the "double precision" (64-bit) floating point number d from the mantissa m, the exponent e and the sign flag s (true means the sign is negative).

import math
sign = -1 if s else 1
d = math.ldexp(sign*m,e)
d = (s?-1:1) * m * double.Exp10(e);

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