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IEEE 754-1985

Revised

Note: This standard has a new edition: IEEE 754-2019

Corrigendums and amendments are bought separately.

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Abstract

New IEEE Standard - Superseded. A family of commercially feasible ways for new systems to perform binary floating-point arithmetic is defined. This standard specifies basic and extended floating-point number formats; add, subtract, multiply, divide, square root, remainder, and compare operations; conversions between integer and floating-point formats; conversions between different floating-point formats; conversions between basic-format floating-point numbers and decimal strings; and floating-point exceptions and their handling, including nonnumbers.

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  • Standard from IEEE
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  • Document type: IS
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  • Publisher IEEE
  • Distributor IEEE
  • ICS 07.020
  • ICS 35.020
  • Technical Committee IEEE Computer Society / Microprocessor Standards Committee

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