Floats

Long story short, I got really bored over the summer and made a new floating point format. Before we get into that, let’s dive a little deeper into how computers store data to understand what I’m even talking about here. How computers store data As I’m sure you probably know by now, computers can only read and write 0s and 1s, in a format known as “binary”. In fact, that’s what a “bit” is, a “ b…