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by Scaevolus 2240 days ago
That shouldn't matter for the factors you're describing. The number of floats between 1 and 2 is the same as the number of floats between 2^-30 and 2^-31. Until you hit denormal numbers and start overflowing or underflowing your exponent, it doesn't have any effect on precision.

If you have a process that converts floats into other formats with more restricted exponents, like human readable strings, it might matter.