Given a passage and a question, find the answer to the question based on the passage. The answer should consist of only one word that lies in the span of only one of the sentences in the passage.

Paragraph: In IEEE 754 - 2008 the 32 - bit base - 2 format is officially referred to as binary32 . It was called single in IEEE 754 - 1985 . In older computers , different floating - point formats of 4 bytes were used , e.g. , GW - BASIC 's single - precision data type was the 32 - bit MBF floating - point format .
Question: ieee single precision floating point number in binary

binary32