What is floating point format used for?
In search of a compromise between speed, size and representation accuracy, scientists have proposed floating point (or floating point) numbers. For some reason, floating point arithmetic is considered an exotic area of computer science, given that the corresponding data types are present in every programming language.
Floating point numbers are one of the possible ways to represent real numbers, which is a compromise between precision and range of values.
A floating point number consists of a set of separate bits, conventionally divided into sign, order, and mantissa. The order and mantissa are integers that, together with a sign, give a floating point representation. Different types of computers use different options for representing numbers in floating point form.