How Floating-Point No Is Stored in Memory?

This article is just a simplification of the IEEE 754 standard. Here, we will see how floating-point no stored in memory, floating-point exceptions/rounding, etc. But if you will want to find more authoritative sources then go for What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754-1985 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_point. Floating-point numbers stored by encoding significand & the exponent (along with a sign bit) Above line contains 2-3 abstract terms & I think you will unable to understand the above line until you read further....

September 15, 2019 · 7 min · 1324 words · Vishal Chovatiya