IEEE 754-2008

IEEE 754-2008 was the 2008 revision of the IEEE standard for floating-point arithmetic and substantially revised IEEE 754-1985. It was superseded by the active IEEE 754-2019 standard. The current standard specifies binary and decimal interchange and arithmetic formats, rounding operations, exception conditions, and their default handling.

The full name of the 2008 standard is the IEEE Standard 754-2008 for Floating-Point Arithmetic and it is commonly shortened to IEEE 754-2008.

See also

Arithmetic, Biased Exponent, 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, Interval Arithmetic, NaN, Quiet NaN, Signaling NaN, Significand, Subnormal Number

Portions of this entry contributed by Christopher Stover

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IEEE Computer Society. "IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic: IEEE Std 754-2008 (Revision of IEEE Std 754-1985)." 2008. https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEESTD.2008.4610935.IEEE Computer Society. "IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic: IEEE Std 754-2019 (Revision of IEEE 754-2008)." 2019. https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEESTD.2019.8766229.

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Weisstein, Eric W., with contributions by Christopher Stover. "IEEE 754-2008." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/IEEE754-2008.html

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