7. Floats per block

Block floats have been used with signal processors to achieve the dynamic range of the float representation with processors that do not have float operators. Typical use was the calculation of Fourier transforms . This approach is used by Microsoft under the name "Microsoft Floating Point"

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(2) - - IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic,

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