Podcasts Other Geek Author Episode 3.07 - Introduction to Floating Point Binary and IEEE 754 Notation

Episode 3.07 - Introduction to Floating Point Binary and IEEE 754 Notation

Published: July 28, 2019, 11:12 p.m.

Regardless of the numeric base, scientific notation breaks numbers into three parts: sign, mantissa, and exponent. In this episode, we discuss how the computer stores those three parts to memory, and why IEEE 754 puts them together the way it does.