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(-1)^S 1.M 2^(E-127) is the concept not the implementation and the implementation is the important part, especially as a programmer. The blog is mostly about th

(-1)^S 1.M 2^(E-127) is the concept not the implementation and the implementation is the important part, especially as a programmer. The blog is mostly about the details. How the bits are allocated, how they influence precision, etc... And exactly none of that is included in "(-1)^S 1.M 2^(E-127)"

nv-vn 9y ago
But that's not what the blog post is about. Every other explanation of floating point numbers describes how bits are allocated. The visual part of this article is a drawing of the window and offset thing. Which in this case, is exactly what the expression is saying.