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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=IEEE_754">IEEE 754</a> <a href="page.php?w=Floating-point_arithmetic">floating-point</a> numbers, the <a href="page.php?w=exponent">exponent</a> is biased in the <a href="page.php?w=biasing">engineering sense of the word</a> - the value stored is offset from the actual value by the <b>exponent bias</b>, also called a <b>biased exponent</b>.Biasing is done because exponents have to be signed values in order to be able to represent both tiny and huge values, but <a href="page.php?w=two%27s_complement">two's complement</a>,</p><p>
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