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the significand . The significand is assumed to have a binary point to the right of the leftmost bit. So, the binary representation of ? is calculated from left-to-right as follows:

where is the precision ( in this example), is the position of the bit of the significand from the left (starting at and finishing at here) and is the exponent ( in this example).

It can be required that the most significant digit of the significand of a non-zero number be non-zero (except when the corresponding

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