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An eight-bit floating point representation would seem to offer an extremely limited dynamic range, but whatever floats your boat... According to the WP article referenced above, IEEE-754 already has a "binary16" Half-precision floating-point format definition; maybe that would be of use.

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Re^4: How to convert negative and positive floating points to binary and vice versa
by thanos1983 (Parson) on Sep 21, 2014 at 02:30 UTC

    Hello Anonymous Monk,

    Thank you for your time and effort reading and replying to my question. At this point and based on all the answers I assume that I was asking for something so extreme that has no use. Since even Half precision floating points (16 bit) are only used for accuracy not for calculations.

    I was asking for something extreme, I should start thinking about conversion of floating points in 32 bit. I assume that would be easier to get and achieve.

    Thank you for your time and effort to assist me with my question.

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