Definition of full written for English Language Learners from the Merriam-Webster Learner's Dictionary with audio pronunciations, usage examples, and count/noncount noun labels.
The binary representation of a Decimal value consists of a 1-bit sign, a 96-bit integer number, and a scaling factor used to divide the 96-bit integer and specify what portion of it is a decimal fraction.
All data in modern computers is stored as series of bits. A bit is a binary digit and can have one of two values; the two values are generally represented as the numbers 0 and 1. The most basic form of representing computer data, then, is to represent a piece of data as a string of 1s and 0s, one for each bit. What you end up with is a binary or base-2 number; this is binary notation. For example, the number 42 would be represented in binary as: