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Internal Representation Of Numerical Types

32-bit integers 

32-bit 

Floating-point types, always  

Floating point

s  
=  
Sign bit ( 0 = positive, 1 = negative)  
Exponent bias (normalized values):  
i  
=  
Position of implicit binary point  
float: 127 (7FH)  
1  
=  
Integer bit of significance:  
double: 1,023 (3FFH)  
 
 
Stored in long double
Implicit in float, double  
long double: 16,383 (3FFFH)  
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