Category:Definitions/Floating-Point Representation

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Floating-point representation is a technique for representing a real number $x$ in a given number base $\beta$ by presenting it uniquely in the form:

$x = f \times \beta^e$

where:

$f$ is a real number such that $\dfrac 1 \beta \le \size f < 1$, expressed in decimal notation
$e$ is an integer.