In floating-point arithmetic , a biased exponent is the result of adding some constant (called the bias) to the exponent
chosen to make the range of the exponent nonnegative.
Biased exponents are particularly useful when encoding and decoding the floating-point
representations of subnormal numbers .
See also Arithmetic ,
Floating-Point Algebra ,
Floating-Point Arithmetic ,
Floating-Point Exponent ,
Floating-Point
Normal Number ,
Floating-Point Number ,
Floating-Point Preferred Exponent ,
Floating-Point Quantum ,
Floating-Point
Representation ,
IEEE 754-2008 ,
Interval
Arithmetic ,
NaN ,
Quiet NaN ,
Signaling NaN ,
Significand ,
Subnormal Number
This entry contributed by Christopher
Stover
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References IEEE Computer Society. "IEEE Standard for Floating-Point
Arithmetic: IEEE Std 754-2008 (Revision of IEEE Std 754-1985)." 2008. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=4610935 .
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Stover, Christopher . "Biased Exponent." From MathWorld Eric
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