Floating-point arithmetic: Difference between revisions

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Internal representation: For "Half", no need to say "IEEE 754-2008" as the current standard applies (BTW, nothing was said for quad, formally binary128, which has also been introduced in 2008).
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=== Internal representation ===
Floating-point numbers are typically packed into a computer datum as the sign bit, the exponent field, and the significand or mantissa, from left to right. For the [[IEEE 754]] binary formats (basic and extended) whichthat have extant hardware implementations, they are apportioned as follows:
 
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