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[[User:Whitehorses2501|Whitehorses2501]] ([[User talk:Whitehorses2501|talk]]) 00:15, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
:Only if we had some notability and a reliable source. That thing you pointed at was a blog of someone's efforts and they haven't even figured out how to multiply the square root of 2 by itself yet. [[User:Dmcq|Dmcq]] ([[User talk:Dmcq|talk]]) 08:18, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
== formula to calculate Range of floating-point numbers ==
The '''Range of floating-point numbers''' section says {{quotation|Positive floating-point numbers in this format have an approximate range of 10<sup>−308</sup> to 10<sup>308</sup> (because 308 is approximately 1023 × log<sub>10</sub>(2), since the range of the exponent is [−1022,1023]). The complete range of the format is from about −10<sup>308</sup> through +10<sup>308</sup> (see [[IEEE 754]]).}}
Would this be more clear if expressed as: {{quotation|... because 308 is approximately log<sub>10</sub>(2<sup>1023</sup>) ...}}
The latter is more consistent with the earlier (in Overview) notation of ''value'' = ''s'' × ''b<sup>e</sup>'' (where ''b=2'', ''e''=1023). [[Special:Contributions/63.116.23.136|63.116.23.136]] ([[User talk:63.116.23.136|talk]]) 05:10, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
{{done|Done [[User:Mitch Ames|Mitch Ames]] ([[User talk:Mitch Ames|talk]]) 02:29, 31 July 2011 (UTC)}}
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