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Integers and floating-point (decimal) numbers are stored differently on the computer. Floats are stored under the IEEE 754 floating-point number standard.

Subnormal numbers

References

1

E.M. Schwarz, M. Schmookler, S.D. Trong, Hardware implementations of denormalized numbers, Published 2003, [Online]

2

Ciro Santilli, What is a subnormal floating point number?, Published 2018-11-08, [Online]

3

William Kahan, Charles Severance, An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point, Published 1998-02-20, [Online]