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Is it true that the exponent of an IEEE Floating point number is encoded in 2's complement representation?

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Hi there! Thank you for the opportunity to help you with your question!

This is a slightly tricky question, but what happens in IEEE Floating point numbers, is that there is also a bias, to facilitate comparison, so the answer is No, not exactly. If 2's complement were used, it would be difficult to order and compare positive and negative exponents.

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