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

What every computer scientist should know about floating point.

Answer 2

Everything you want to know is on the wikipedia page for IEEE-754: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754-2008.

Answer 3

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.