How did the IEEE 754 standard choose how many bits to allocate to each field (i.e. sign, exponent...
Channel: Peter Schneider
Date: 2022-11-08

How did the IEEE 754 standard choose how many bits to allocate to each field (i.e. sign, exponent, mantissa)?
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