[ruds]

The complaint is about the text in the article, which reads "The hardware interprets a float as having the value:

    value = (-1)^sign * 2^(exponent-127) * 1.fraction".

"1.fraction" is nonsense that doesn't really mean anything, whereas (1 + fraction * 2^-23) does mean something.

[kevin_thibedeau]

It's just a different notation same as 1234 is shorthand for

  1*10^4 + 2*10^3 + ...