234 = 2.34 x 10^2 IEEE-754 floating point standard 110.1 = 1.101 x 2^2 101 is the significand 2 is the exponent sign = 0 since positive sign, exponent, significand 0, 2+127=129, 1010000..00 127 is the "bias" for the exponent for 32 bits 0110.0 = 1.100 x 2^2 0, 2+127=129, 1000000..00 hidden bit (1) 0 10000001 10000..0 0100 0000 1100 000..0 40C00000 for 32 bits MATLAB shows this: >> disp(sprintf('%tx \n', 6)) 40c00000