On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 21:00 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [...]If numbers > from binary 0.1 to 1.0 are represented using 24 bits (sign bit + mantissa, I > think the implicit 1 does not count)
You could represent numbers to 1 bit of precision using a zero bit mantissa (ie exponent only) format. So the implicit 1 definitely does count. Simon.