Floating-point arithmetic: Difference between revisions

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Other notable floating-point formats: restoring "Trailing significand field" ("mantissa" is not the standard term; moreover, the encoding does not include the first bit, hence "trailing")
Internal representation: For the first part of the table, changed "Bits" to "Bits for the encoding". Now, since this is about the encoding, it should be clear that the number given for the significand excludes the implicit bit, when this is used.
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!colspan="4" |Bits for the encoding<!-- Since this is about the encoding, it should be clear that the number given for the significand below excludes the implicit bit, when this is used. -->
!colspan="4" |Bits
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!rowspan="2" |Exponent<br>bias