Category:Floating-Point Representation

This category contains results about Floating-Point Representation.
Definitions specific to this category can be found in Definitions/Floating-Point Representation.

Floating-point representation is a technique for representing a real number $x$ in a given number base $\beta$ by presenting it uniquely in the form:

$x = f \times \beta^e$

where:

$f$ is a real number such that $\dfrac 1 \beta \le \size f < 1$, expressed in decimal notation

$e$ is an integer.