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"Significant" is a typo. It should say "significand", i.e. mantisaa. All normal floating point numbers have an implicit most significant significand bit of 1, m
by asdvjonbn 7y ago
"Significant" is a typo. It should say "significand", i.e. mantisaa. All normal floating point numbers have an implicit most significant significand bit of 1, meaning they are 1.something * 2 ^ exponent. I cannot type the math properly at the moment.
- anaphor 7y agoAnd it can be 0.something, which is a subnormal number. 0 and 1 because it's binary floating point, as you could have decimal IEEE 754 floats too.