Octuple-precision floating-point format: Difference between revisions

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Fixed value of offset that has to be subtracted to get the true exponent. The error was probably a leftover from the Quadruple article.
m Exponent encoding: fix minus sign, cleanup sup/sub, replaced: <sup>- → <sup>− using AWB
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! Exponent !! Significand zero !! Significand non-zero !! Equation
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| 00000<sub>16</sub> || [[0 (number)|0]], [[−0]] || [[subnormal numbers]] || (-1)<sup>signbit</sup> x 2<sup>-262142−262142</sup> x 0.significandbits<sub>2</sub>
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| 00001<sub>16</sub>, ..., 7FFFE<sub>16</sub> ||colspan=2| normalized value || (-1)<sup>signbit</sup> x 2<sup>exponent bits<sub>2</sub></sup> x 1.significandbits<sub>2</sub>