diff --git a/src/algorithms/math/binary-floating-point/README.md b/src/algorithms/math/binary-floating-point/README.md index 28519028..32b41f64 100644 --- a/src/algorithms/math/binary-floating-point/README.md +++ b/src/algorithms/math/binary-floating-point/README.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Binary representation of floating-point numbers -Have you ever wondered how computers store the floating-point numbers like `3.1415` (𝝿) or `9.109 × 10⁻³¹` (the mass of the electron in kg) in the memory which is limited by a finite number of ones and zeroes (aka bits)? +Have you ever wondered how computers store the floating-point numbers like `3.1416` (𝝿) or `9.109 × 10⁻³¹` (the mass of the electron in kg) in the memory which is limited by a finite number of ones and zeroes (aka bits)? It seems pretty straightforward for integers (i.e. `17`). Let's say we have 16 bits (2 bytes) to store the number. In 16 bits we may store the integers in a range of `[0, 65535]`: