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Floating point operations

Double-precision

Double-precision floating point numbers have the following format:

63 62 52 51 0
SIGN EXPONENT FRACTION
      ^  
      binary point  

Field Position Full name
sign 63 sign bit (0==positive, 1==negative)
exponent 62-52 exponent (biased by 1023)
fraction 51-0 fraction (bits to right of binary point)


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