Decimal floating point (3 or 4 binary bits), and the rest of the significand uses the densely packed decimal (DPD) encoding. Unlike the binary integer significand version, where the exponent changed position and came before the significand, this encoding combines the leading 2 bits of the exponent and the leading digit (3 or 4 bits) of the significand into the five bits that follow the sign bit. This is followed by a fixed-offset exponent continuation field. Finally, the significand continuation field made of 2, 5, or 11 10-bit "declets", each encoding 3 decimal digits. If the first two bits after the sign bit
Repeating decimal repetition. Examples of such irrational numbers are the square root of 2 and . There are several notational conventions for representing repeating decimals. None of them are accepted universally. In English, there are various ways to read repeating decimals aloud. For example, formula_1 may be read "one point three repeating", "one point three repeated", "one point three recurring", or "one point three into infinity". In order to convert a rational number represented as a fraction into decimal form, one may use long division. For example, consider the rational number 5/74: etc. Observe that at each step we have a remainder;