Signum. ``'' bit = 0 (positive) or 1 (negative).
Exponent. Biased representation, with an exponent bias of .
Mantissa. Hidden bit technique.
| Numerical Value | |
| = | |
| (ZERO or subnormal) | |
| = | |
| = | |
| = | |
| = | |
| = | if |
| NaN otherwise |
Note that , which implies that does not overflow.