> If that wasn't bad enough, since the magnitude of the numbers follows a normal distribution (someone whose name I forgot's law), the most significant bits of the exponent field are very rarely used. The IEEE-754 encoding is suboptimal.
But isn't that accounted for by the fact the floating point number distribution is non-uniform? Half of all floating point numbers are between -1 and 1.
But isn't that accounted for by the fact the floating point number distribution is non-uniform? Half of all floating point numbers are between -1 and 1.