Comment by chungy
5 hours ago
The IEEE 754 standard has been updated several times, often by relaxing previous mandates in order to make various hardware implementations become compliant retroactively (eg, adding Intel's 80-bit floats as a standard floating point size).
It'll be interesting if the "-ish" bits are still "-ish" with the current standard.
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