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Interesting… I guess it must be biased, m*2^ee would leave like half of the limited space wasted, so 1.m*2^ee?

I always wonder with these tiny formats if 0 should even be represented…



I’m not a binary guy that much, but iirc all floats are 1.m*2^e — “1.” is always there except for subnormals. There’s also SEEE FP4 which is basically +-2^([u?]int3).

https://medium.com/@harrietfiagbor/floating-points-and-deep-...




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