Iterate through single precision floating point numbers between [1,2)

Question

I am working on program that requires me to iterate through all single precision floating point (23 fractions bits) numbers in the range of [1,2). I am not quite sure how to go about this. I am writing this program in C#.

If someone could give me some help with this, that would be awesome. Thank you!

Answer 1

You could use the BitConverter static class to convert float value to int and back. Thus you can access its bits.

int one = BitConverter.ToInt32(BitConverter.GetBytes(1f), 0);
int two = BitConverter.ToInt32(BitConverter.GetBytes(2f), 0);

for (int i = one; i < two; i++)
{
    float f = BitConverter.ToSingle(BitConverter.GetBytes(i), 0);
    // Your stuff
}