"Significant" is a typo. It should say "significand", i.e. mantisaa. All normal floating point numbers have an implicit most significant significand bit of 1, meaning they are 1.something * 2 ^ exponent. I cannot type…
That's called a 'subnormal number'. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8341395/what-is-a-subnor... If the exponent is 0, then: the leading bit becomes 0 the exponent is fixed to -126 (not -127 as if we didn't have this…
"Significant" is a typo. It should say "significand", i.e. mantisaa. All normal floating point numbers have an implicit most significant significand bit of 1, meaning they are 1.something * 2 ^ exponent. I cannot type…
That's called a 'subnormal number'. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8341395/what-is-a-subnor... If the exponent is 0, then: the leading bit becomes 0 the exponent is fixed to -126 (not -127 as if we didn't have this…