IEEE Standard 754 for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic

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Only the Extended format appears in a 680x0’s eight floating-point flat registers or an ix87’s eight floating-point stack-registers, so all numbers loaded from memory in any other format, floating-point or integer or BCD, are converted on the fly into Extended with no change in value. All arithmetic operations enjoy the Extended

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