title: What is the maximum number in the mantissa part of a Java float?
body: <p>In Java what is the maximum number in the mantissa part that can be stored?</p>
  
  <p>In this link below 
  <a href="http://steve.hollasch.net/cgindex/coding/ieeefloat.html" rel="noreferrer">http://steve.hollasch.net/cgindex/coding/ieeefloat.html</a></p>
  
  <pre><code>                         Sign       Exponent    Fraction    Bias
  Single Precision       1 [31]       8 [30-23]   23 [22-00]  127
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Does it mean that we can have only 0 to 2^8 combinations stored?</p>