From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!zeppo!whuxlb!thf
Newsgroups: net.general
Title: Biased exponents
Article-I.D.: whuxlb.354
Posted: Tue Jul 20 15:47:54 1982
Received: Sun Jul 25 01:43:56 1982

Does anybody know why the the representation of floating point
numbers typically uses a biased exponent? Are there machines
that do not use a biased exponent?
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