At 17:43 +0000 97/11/02, Sigbjorn Finne wrote:
>The highest bit of the mantissa in IEEE-754 floats is always 1 => 23
>bits reqd to represent a 24 bit mantissa.
At 19:13 +0100 97/11/02, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
>..Since a normalized number always has a 1 as the MSB
>that bit is not stored, hence there is one more bit of precision than
>there are bits in the format.
So how is the float zero stored (i.e. what is its mantissa)?
Hans Aberg
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