in reply to Re^6: Unpacking extended-double precision floats
in thread Unpacking extended-double precision floats

52-actual bits, but there is also an impled bit in for an effective mantissa of 53-bits.

The tricky bit[sic] is that in the 64-bit mantissa of the 80-bit animal, there is not an implied bit.

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