What is the maximum number in the mantissa part of a Java float?

Question

In Java what is the maximum number in the mantissa part that can be stored?

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Answer 1

The mantissa is 23 bits in a float, but the stored value is normalized, meaning that there's an implied leading 1 followed by a decimal point. This takes it to 24 effective bits.