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About the bits reserved for float variable [message #39508]

Fri, 21 May 2004 06:33

Nuno Oliveira
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I looking at the Chapter 5 of the Bulding Aplication.

It says, for float variables that it's a 32 bits number in the range of
+/-10^38 withe approximately six or seven decimal places of significance.
What I'm missing here? How can a number 32 bit number range between -10^38
and +10^38?

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