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  Radix point: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The radix (latin for root), also called base, is the number of various unique symbols (or digits or numerals) a positional numeral system uses to represent...
The decimal separator is a symbol used to mark the boundary between the integer and the fractional parts of a decimal numeral....
To the right of the radix point is 1 which is the binary representation of the fraction 1/2.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ra/radix_point.htm   (633 words)

  
 IEEE floating-point standard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
m = 1.Fraction in binary (that is, the significand is the binary number 1 followed by the radix point followed by the binary bits of Fraction).
The fraction is the part at the right of the radix point, filled with 0 on the right until we get all 23 bits.
For Denormalised numbers the exponent is −1022 (the minimum exponent for a normalised number—it is not −1023 because normalised numbers have a leading 1 digit before the binary point and denormalised numbers do not).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/IEEE_floating-point_standard   (1444 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Binary numeral system Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In contrast to the binary system, the commonly-used decimal numeral system has a radix of ten and uses the symbols 0 through 9.
When the result of an addition exceeds the value of the radix, the procedure is to "carry the one" to the left and add the next place value.
In the decimal system, the radix is 10 (ten), so the left-most digit of a three-digit number represents the 10
www.ipedia.com /binary_numeral_system.html   (2272 words)

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