How often can you divide a 64 bit floating point value by 2? (twitter.com) 2 points by no_gravity 7y ago ↗ HN
[–] fouronnes3 7y ago ↗ Each divide by 2 will decrease the exponent by 1 until it reaches its minimum 11-bits 2's complement value of -1022, then you are left with 52 mantissa bits (because the first is implicit), then 1 more to boom. The answer is 1022+52+1 = 1075
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