Uploaded October 2012 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This is the first of my tutorial mini series on the IEEE 754 floating point standard. That's the way a modern computer represents real numbers. There's a lot of tutorials on this topic already but I've not yet been able to find any that describe the steps involved in converting a real number into its IEEE 754 bit pattern and back again, they all seem to gloss over the operation as if it does not need any further explanation. I'm making this tutorial series to describe exactly what the standard means for programmers and how to convert to and from these bit patterns.
This is the first of my tutorial mini series on the IEEE 754 floating point standard. That's the way a modern computer represents real numbers. There's a lot of tutorials on this topic already but I've not yet been able to find any that describe the steps involved in converting a real number into its IEEE 754 bit pattern and back again, they all seem to gloss over the operation as if it does not need any further explanation. I'm making this tutorial series to describe exactly what the standard means for programmers and how to convert to and from these bit patterns.
