The Spacing of Binary Floating-Point Numbers
By Rick Regan March 15th, 2015
An IEEE 754 binary floating-point number is a number that can be represent...
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* normalized binary scientific notation
* ULP
* lie in the interval [2p-1,2p)
* 2p – 2p-1 = 2p-1
* nonnegative powers of two
* converts to
* nonpositive powers of two
* machine epsilon
* floating-point experts use the term binade
* David Goldberg
* Floating Point Representation and the IEEE Standard
* Floating points