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Binary representation of the floating-point numbers

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Binary representation of the floating-point numbers

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Technology@beehaw.org · 1 year ago

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Have you ever wondered how computers store floating-point numbers like 3.1415 (𝝿) in their binary memory?

Found this interesting article and thought to share

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