title: how does floating point numbers get stored in memory
body: <p>as computer understands only 0's and 1's underneath,how does floating point numbers like 12.1234 gets represented in memory as a set of 0's and 1's ,</p>
  
  <p>does it gets stored by respective ASCII values of 1 ,2, . ,1,2,3,4 respectively..?</p>