Episode 3.07 - Introduction to Floating Point Binary and IEEE 754 Notation

from Geek Author · host David Tarnoff

Regardless of the numeric base, scientific notation breaks numbers into three parts: sign, mantissa, and exponent. In this episode, we discuss how the computer stores those three parts to memory, and why IEEE 754 puts them together the way it does.

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