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A single precision floating point number stored in a computer has three parts. they are:

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The sign bit, the exponent bits, and the significand (also known as the mantissa or coefficient).

A single precision floating number would store the significand in bits 0-22, the exponent in bits 23-30, and the sign as the 31 bit.

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