Patent ID: 9660666
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06N,H03M

Claim:
1. A method for compressing at least one floating point number, said method comprising: obtaining said at least one floating point number represented using one or more bits to indicate a sign of said at least one floating point number and one or more additional exponent bits to indicate an exponent at a given base and a significand of said at least one floating point number; determining a length of said significand equal to a number of bits between a most significant bit of said significand and a least significant bit of said significand having a predefined binary value; and encoding said at least one floating point number by encoding, as a single code, an exponent/length pair comprising said exponent and said length, wherein one or more significant bits following said least significant bit of said significand having said predefined binary value are not included in said encoding.