Digits for floating point numbers?

Question

Mathematics

Why is there only one character in the machine representation of a floating point number? If the wiki says that the order and mantissa have their own signs?
In some places, it is written that the mantissa is a fractional number, in others, that it is an integer.

Answer 1

As far as I understand:
In general, it is difficult to find an intelligent review in Russian. A good, although not ideal, article is on Habré .