Format similar to floating point, but with variable-sized entries for the significand and exponent instead of the fixed-length entries found in normal floating-point formats, and a fixed-size pointer indicating the number of digits in the exponent
format similar to floating point, but with variable-sized entries for the significand and exponent instead of the fixed-length entries found in normal floating-point formats, and a fixed-size pointer indicating the number of digits in the exponent (en)