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Author	larry
Recipients	larry, lemburg, mark.dickinson, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, stutzbach, vstinner, vxgmichel
Date	2020-02-09.14:55:02
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Yes, but you get the first 1 bit for free. So it actually only uses 30 bits of storage inside the double. This is apparently called "leading bit convention": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754#Representation_and_encoding_in_memory

Yes, but you get the first 1 bit for free.  So it actually only uses 30 bits of storage inside the double.

This is apparently called "leading bit convention":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754#Representation_and_encoding_in_memory

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