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minus-square@davidgrolinkEnglish2•1 year agoThe percentages change. At the lower end, in binary every number that isn’t 0 itself starts with a 1. This fact is actually used to save one bit in the format that computers usually use to store floating point (fractional instead of integer) numbers.
The percentages change. At the lower end, in binary every number that isn’t 0 itself starts with a 1.
This fact is actually used to save one bit in the format that computers usually use to store floating point (fractional instead of integer) numbers.