A way to represent very large and very small numbers using the same quantity of numeric positions. Floating point also enables calculating a wide range of numbers very quickly. Although floating point ...

The term floating point is derived from the fact that there is no fixed number of digits before and after the decimal point; namely, the decimal point can float. There are also representations in ...

At the other end, -127 (encoded as zero in the exponent field) is used to denote zeroes and numbers that do not have normalised mantissa values. These subnormal or denormalised numbers – often called ...