3 ms·
16 bit is 1 sign + 5 exponent + 10 significand exponent bias is 15 0011 1111 1000 0000 0.875 --- 32 bit is 1 sign + 8 exponent + 23 significand exponent b
by bilalhusain 13y ago
16 bit is 1 sign + 5 exponent + 10 significand
exponent bias is 15
0011 1111 1000 0000
0.875
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32 bit is 1 sign + 8 exponent + 23 significand
exponent bias is 127
0011 1111 1000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
1.0
- wzdd 13y agoMy mistake, you're correct. I still suspect he was seeing 1.0 though, so I guess he was just looking at the top 2 bytes of a 4-byte float.