• In computing, Microsoft Binary Format (MBF) is a format for floating-point numbers which was used in Microsoft's BASIC languages, including MBASIC, GW-BASIC...
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  • processing documents stored on Microsoft's proprietary Microsoft Word Binary File Format; it was the primary format for Microsoft Word until the 2007 version...
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    also contain formatting information in binary form. All modern computers store information in the form of bits (binary digits), using binary code. For this...
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  • applets over the Internet LNK – binary-format file shortcut in Microsoft Windows 95 and later APPREF-MS – File shortcut format used by ClickOnce NAL – ZENworks...
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  • File Binary Format (CFBF), also called Compound File, Compound Document format, or Composite Document File V2 (CDF), is a compound document file format for...
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    Computer). All Microsoft language products from 1975 through 1987 used the Microsoft Binary Format until Microsoft adopted the IEEE 754 standard format in all...
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  • half precision (sometimes called FP16 or float16) is a binary floating-point computer number format that occupies 16 bits (two bytes in modern computers)...
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  • computing, quadruple precision (or quad precision) is a binary floating-point–based computer number format that occupies 16 bytes (128 bits) with precision at...
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  • supports an extended 40-bit variant of the floating-point format Microsoft Binary Format (MBF) since 1977. The IEEE 754 floating-point standard recommends...
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  • used as document file format. It has also become ISO/IEC standard (ISO 15445:2000). The default binary file format used by Microsoft Word (.doc) has become...
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  • in a binary format with the extension .CHM. The format was intended to succeed Microsoft WinHelp. Although the format was designed by Microsoft, it has...
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  • The bfloat16 (brain floating point) floating-point format is a computer number format occupying 16 bits in computer memory; it represents a wide dynamic...
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    as the standard binary file format for Unix and Unix-like systems on x86 processors by the 86open project. By design, the ELF format is flexible, extensible...
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  • of normal values for the binary formats. The "00", "01", or "10" bits are part of the exponent field. For the decimal128 format, all of these significands...
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  • Microsoft Office suite. Legacy Legacy filename extensions denote binary Microsoft Word formatting that became outdated with the release of Microsoft Office...
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  • In computing, octuple precision is a binary floating-point-based computer number format that occupies 32 bytes (256 bits) in computer memory. This 256-bit...
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  • The Portable Executable (PE) format is a file format for executables, object code, dynamic-link-libraries (DLLs), and binary files used on 32-bit and 64-bit...
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  • common use in the North American lumber industry Microsoft Binary Format, a floating point number format MBF Bioscience, a bioscience research software...
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    summer job at Gates's new company Microsoft during college, Davidoff is best known for writing the Microsoft Binary Format floating-point arithmetic routines...
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    The universal binary format is a format for executable files that run natively either on both PowerPC-based and x86-based Macs or on both Intel 64-based...
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  • 100011 (looking to the right of the binary point) From these we can form the resulting 32-bit IEEE 754 binary32 format representation of 12.375: ( 12.375...
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  • type was the 64-bit MBF floating-point format. Double-precision binary floating-point is a commonly used format on PCs, due to its wider range over single-precision...
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  • additional information indicating an encoding. DOS and Microsoft Windows use a common text file format, with each line of text separated by a two-character...
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  • Retrieved 2016-06-02. "IEEE vs. Microsoft Binary Format; Rounding Issues (Complete)". Microsoft Support. Microsoft. 2006-11-21. Article ID KB35826, Q35826...
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  • the sign of the significand). The 8-bit exponent in Microsoft Binary Format, a floating point format used in various programming languages (in particular...
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    Excel format. Two epochs of the format exist: the 97-2003 OLE format, and the older stream format. Microsoft has made the Excel binary format specification...
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    and spreadsheets that are encoded in binary formats defined by Microsoft Corporation. ... The original binary formats for these files were based on direct...
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  • Various binary formats have been proposed as compact representations for XML (Extensible Markup Language). Using a binary XML format generally reduces...
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  • renamed subnormal numbers and are supported in both binary and decimal formats. In binary interchange formats, subnormal numbers are encoded with a biased exponent...
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    A: Product Behavior" (PDF). [MS-DOC]: Word (.doc) Binary File Format (PDF). Redmond, WA: Microsoft. Archived from the original on January 10, 2015. Retrieved...
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