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Java 6 Illuminated: An Active Learning Approach, 2nd Edition
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Java 6 Illuminated: An Active Learning Approach, 2nd Edition

by Julie Anderson, Herve J. Franceschi
February 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1288 pages
39h 39m
English
Jones & Bartlett Learning
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APPENDIX
Representing Floating-Point Numbers
IEEE 754, a specification accepted worldwide and used by the Java lan-
guage, defines how to represent floating-point numbers in binary num-
bers. Single-precision floating-point numbers use 32 bits of memory, and
double-precision floating-point numbers use 64 bits.
Here is how single- and double-precision floating-point numbers are rep-
resented:
The leftmost bit stores the sign of the floating-point number; a 0 indicates
a positive number, while a 1 indicates a negative number.
To represent the exponent of the number, which can be positive or nega-
tive, each representation stores a positive, biased exponent, ...
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ISBN: 9780763749637