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In the above cases, the value represented is
: (−1)<sup>sign</
If the four bits after the sign bit are "1111" then the value is an infinity or a NaN, as described above:
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=== Densely packed decimal significand field ===
In this version, the significand is stored as a series of decimal digits. The leading digit is between 0 and 9 (3 or 4 binary bits), and the rest of the significand uses the [[densely packed decimal]]
Unlike the binary integer significand version, where the exponent changed position and came before the significand, this encoding, combines the leading 2 bits of the exponent and the leading digit (3 or 4 bits) of the significand into the five bits that follow the sign bit.
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The 8 decimal values whose digits are all 8s or 9s have four codings each.
The bits marked x in the table above are ignored on input, but will always be 0 in computed results.
(The 8×3 = 24 non-standard encodings fill in the gap between 10<sup>3</sup>=1000 and 2<sup>10</sup>=1024.)
In the above cases, with the ''true significand'' as the sequence of decimal digits decoded, the value represented is
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