28/48 Accuracy

[Werner]

(09-16-2022 03:52 PM)John Keith Wrote:  IIRC, the least significant 48 bits are the mantissa, bits 48-51 are the mantissa sign (with some other data?) and the most significant 12 bits are the signed exponent (-500..499).
Something like this:

|e e e|s|m m m m m m m m m m m m|

No, it's
012 3456789ABCDE F
XXX MMMMMMMMMMMM S

Cheers, Werner