You made me go looking. I don't think there's a universal standard, but an 8-bit float would probably be broken down as: 1 bit sign 4 bit exponent 3 bit manti

You made me go looking. I don't think there's a universal standard, but an 8-bit float would probably be broken down as: 1 bit sign 4 bit exponent 3 bit mantissa This allows it to represent numbers in the range of 480 down to 0.0078 (and their negatives). Of course, it can only accurately represent 256 distinct numbers out of that range, so accuracy will be bit compromised. I wonder if they were ever legitimately used for a real-world program?