Why Labview does'nt support splitting of a byte into two nibbles

[danil33]

Hi,

      It is written in the help of  'Split Number Function' that "If you wire an 8-bit integer input, this function does not split the number."Why  Labview does'nt support splitting of a byte into two nibbles??Some times we need to split a byte into nibbles.It is programatically possible with a loop and shiftregister.But Iam asking this because we already have a Split Number Function then why not providing another to split a byte into two nibbles??

1 Byte                            Nibbles                                        

[X.]

I mean, seriously, wouldn't you want to decompose a bit in half bits, quarter bits, etc to be able to represent floating point values?

[smercurio_fc]

Why? Will we be able to represent 1 in binary exactly?

[altenbach]

(Thanks Saverio. That old comedy "bit" can give endless amusement, of course. :D)

Since a bit can have two states, a half-bit can only have one state. How do we want to call that state? A Fuzzball? What is it? Is it a superposition of true and false? And what are the rules to cast two half-bits back into a boolean that can be either TRUE or FALSE?

... and why do we need it?

[X.]

I was thinking about the fixed point representation of numbers, so I guess I should have mentioned splitting the integer and decimal part, rather than a bit itself... But i personally never used FXP, so what do I know?