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During lecture the professor talked about Integer Compare for floats and kept mentioning two's complement.

What's the relation between them?

All I understand is that two's complement can take us from a number to its negative.

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IEEE 754 Floating point is a standard way of representing fractions in binary which does not use two's complement. There's a discussion here about why that is.

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