Binary integer decimal: Difference between revisions

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s = −1 (negative numbers) when the sign bit is 1

e = exponent (in binary format) − bias

m = An integer (in binary format).

The result can include +infinity, -infinity and NaN. If the top five bits of the exponent field have the encoding 11110 binary, the number represented is + or - infinity. Nan is represented by the tops five bits of the exponent field being set to 1.