Floating-Point Formats

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Data Formats and Floating-Point Operation
Figure 5–12. Converting from Single-Precision Floating-Point Format to Extended-Precision Floating-Point Format
Single-precision floating-point format
Extended-precision floating-point format
0yxx
yy yxx
31 24 23 22 0
39 32 3031 0
yy0
87

The 8 LSBs of the mantissa field are filled with 0s.

Figure 5–13. Converting from Extended-Precision Floating-Point Format to Single-Precision Floating-Point Format
Extended-precision floating-point format
zyxx
39 32 3031 0
yyz
87
Single-precision floating-point format
yy y
xx
31 24 23 22 0

The 8 LSBs of the mantissa field are truncated.