Fig. 2
From: MassComp, a lossless compressor for mass spectrometry data
Example for representing value 0.15625 in the IEEE 754 standard. The value can be computed from the binary representation as: \((-1)^{b_{31}} \left (1 + \sum _{i=1}^{23} b_{23-i}2^{-i}\right) 2^{(e-127)}\), with \(e = \sum _{i=0}^{7}b_{23+i}2^{i}\)