[bilalhusain]

16 bit is 1 sign + 5 exponent + 10 significand

exponent bias is 15

0011 1111 1000 0000

0.875

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32 bit is 1 sign + 8 exponent + 23 significand

exponent bias is 127

0011 1111 1000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

1.0

[wzdd]

My mistake, you're correct. I still suspect he was seeing 1.0 though, so I guess he was just looking at the top 2 bytes of a 4-byte float.