floating point in short: computer representation of scientific notation(1) with sign bit, exponent(2) and coefficient(3) crammed in the same word. 1. http://en

floating point in short: computer representation of scientific notation(1) with sign bit, exponent(2) and coefficient(3) crammed in the same word. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_notation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_notation 2. base 2, biased by 127, 8 bits (IEEE float) 3. base 2, implicit leading 1, 23 bits (IEEE float) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-precision_floating-point_format http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-precision_floating-point...