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6 Programming
NJ-series CPU Unit Software User’s Manual (W501)
6-3 Variables
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6-3-5 Data Types
This floating-point format follows the IEEE 754 standard. The formats are given below.
Example: Expressing 86.625 as REAL Data
1 This is a negative number, so s =1.
2 86.625 in binary is 1010110.101.
3 Normalizing this value gives us 1.010110101  2
6
.
4 From the above expression we can determine that e127 = 6, so e = 133 (or 10000101 in
binary).
5 Next we take the value after the decimal part of 1.010110101, which is 010110101. This is not
enough for the 23-bit mantissa, so f is this number with the required amount of zeroes added to
the end. Therefore, f = 01011010100000000000000.
Therefore, you can express 86.625 as shown in the following figure.
Valid Ranges
The valid ranges for REAL and LREAL data are shown in the following table. There are a range of
values that you cannot express as you approach 0.
Data type

Negative numbers 0 Positive numbers

REAL

3.402823e+38 to 1.175495e-38 0 +1.175495e38 to
+3.402823e+38

LREAL

1.79769313486231e+308 to
2.22507385850721e308
0 +2.22507385850721e308 to
+1.79769313486231e+308

s
31 30 23 22
0
ef
MantissaExponentSign
REAL data (32 bits)
s
63 62 52 51
0
ef
MantissaExponentSign
LREAL data (64 bits)
1
31 30 23 22 0
10000101 01011010100000000000000
Mantissa
Exponent
Sign
REAL data (32 bits)
−∞ +∞
REAL −3.402823e+38
LREAL −1.79769313486231e+308
REAL +3.402823e+38
LREAL +1.79769313486231e+308
REAL −1.175495e−38
LREAL −2.22507385850721e−308
REAL +1.175495e−38
LREAL +2.22507385850721e−308
0