Abstract

Floating point numbers are an important data type in computation which is used extensively. Yet, many users do not know the standard which is used in almost all computer hardware to store and process these. In this article, we explain the standards evolved by The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers in 1985 and augmented in 2008 to represent floating point numbers and process them. This standard is now used by all computer manufacturers while designing floating point arithmetic units so that programs are portable among computers.

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