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
Binary integer decimal Binary integer decimal The IEEE 754-2008 standard includes an encoding format for decimal floating point numbers in which the significand and the exponent (and the payloads of NaNs) can be encoded in two ways, referred to in the draft as binary encoding and "decimal encoding". Both formats break a number down into a sign bit "s", an exponent "q" (between "q" and "q"), and a "p"-digit significand "c" (between 0 and 10−1). The value encoded is (−1)×10×"c". In both formats the range of possible values is identical, but they differ in how the significand "c" is represented. In the decimal