LLM Engineer's Almanac - Quant Formats

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Value


Bit Pattern

Sign

Exponent

Significand


Sign

Exponent

Significand

Raw Hexadecimal Integer Value

Raw Decimal Integer Value

Hexadecimal Form ("%a")


Evaluation in Base-2

(-1)0 × 10201112 - 01112 × 1.0002

Evaluation in Base-10

1 × 20 × 1

Exact Base-10 Value

1