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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 th
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asdvjonbn
7y ago
That's called a 'subnormal number'. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8341395/what-is-a-subnor... If the exponent is 0, then: the leading bit becomes 0 the exponent is fixed