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Doc: enhance readability by avoiding big blocks for small numbers.
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Use bold for binary and decimal for readability.
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12 changes: 3 additions & 9 deletions Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst
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Expand Up @@ -12,15 +12,9 @@ Floating Point Arithmetic: Issues and Limitations


Floating-point numbers are represented in computer hardware as base 2 (binary)
fractions. For example, the decimal fraction ::

0.125

has value 1/10 + 2/100 + 5/1000, and in the same way the binary fraction ::

0.001

has value 0/2 + 0/4 + 1/8. These two fractions have identical values, the only
fractions. For example, the **decimal** fraction ``0.125``
has value 1/10 + 2/100 + 5/1000, and in the same way the **binary** fraction ``0.001``
has value 0/2 + 0/4 + 1/8. These two fractions have identical values, the only
real difference being that the first is written in base 10 fractional notation,
and the second in base 2.

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