Quadruple-precision floating-point format: Difference between revisions

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[[File:IEEE 754 Quadruple Floating Point Format.svg|800px|A sign bit, a 15-bit exponent, and a 112-bit significand]]

→<ref name="whyieee" />=== Exponent encoding ===

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→<ref name="whyieee" />=== Exponent encoding ===

The quadruple-precision binary floating-point exponent is encoded using an [[offset binary]] representation, with the zero offset being 16383; this is also known as exponent bias in the IEEE 754 standard.