FloatingPointRepresentation

Float Number format:

31	30 - 23		22 - 0
Sign Bit 0+, 1-	Value = Exponent + 127		Significand

We note that the Significand is really 1.significand * 2^Exponent which doesn't allow us to represent 0. To allow this if all bits are 0, the number is 0.

Thus the numbers will be:

127

In Binary this will look like this:

00001111111

00000000000000000000

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