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 [Image description] two panel comic made with screenshots from the show Invincible [Panel 1] Omni-man and Invincible look at the sky, where is superimposed a graphical representation of how a floating point number is stored in memory on digital systems: a sign, an exponent, and a mantissa. [Panel 2] Omni-man looks at and speaks to Invincible, the subtitles reading "Look at what they need to mimic a fraction". The rest of the usual quote, "of our power" is blanked out.   @epilanthanomai IEEE754 is just daily conversation at my house. Oh the gossip we heard about denormals. |
@fatlimey@mastodon.gamedev.place recently i had the opportunity to work with a non-IEEE-754 floating point format (Siemens S5 KG format) ... it was interesting. Uses exponent + mantissa but with fewer bits and two separate sign bits for sign and mantissa.