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For questions about method for storing and manipulating numbers on computer systems, such as floating point or binary representations.

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Can we improve the precision of IEEE floats by dropping leading zeros in the mantissa?

It seems like it would be possible to add more precision to the IEEE 32-bit mantissa system if the leading zeroes were also dropped, just like the leading 1 is dropped due to it being implicitly known …
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