Internal Representation Of Numerical Types

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Integers

Integer values have the following internal representation in the architecture of the Intel Pentium family of microprocessors:

Floating-point types

Floating-point values have the following internal representation in the architecture of the Intel Pentium family of microprocessors:

Here we use the following terms:

s	Sign bit (0 = positive, 1 = negative)
i	Position of implicit binary point
1	Integer bit of significance. It is stored explicitly in long double and it is used implicitly in float and double
Biased exponent (normalized values)	127 (7F) for float 1,023 (3FF) for double 16,383 (3FFF) for long double

See Also

• Constants
• Integer Constants
• Floating Point Constants
• Character Constants
• The Three char Types
• Escape Sequences
• Wide-character And Multi-character Constants
• String Constants
• Enumeration Constants
• Constants And Internal Representation
• Constant Expressions