Overview#

IEEE 754 is titled "IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic"

IEEE 754 The standard defines:

• arithmetic formats: sets of binary and decimal floating-point data, which consist of finite numbers (including signed zeros and subnormal numbers), infinities, and special "not a number" values (NaNs)
• interchange formats: encodings (Bit Strings) that may be used to exchange floating-point data in an efficient and compact form
• rounding rules: properties to be satisfied when rounding numbers during arithmetic and conversions
• operations: arithmetic and other operations (such as trigonometric functions) on arithmetic formats
• exception handling: indications of exceptional conditions (such as division by zero, overflow, etc.)

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• Floating-point

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• [#1] - IEEE_754 - based on information obtained 2018-09-18-
• [#2] - Google, Microsoft and Deep Learning - based on information obtained 2019-08-30