Comment on An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point (1998)parentComments−mike_hock4yThe smallest float you can do that still shows all the patterns is 5-bit (2-bit exponent). If you had only 1 bit for the exponent, you'd go straight from denormal to infinity.
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The smallest float you can do that still shows all the patterns is 5-bit (2-bit exponent). If you had only 1 bit for the exponent, you'd go straight from denormal to infinity.