Electronic – The bitwise complement of a floating point number’s binary representation

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I wonder if the bitwise complement (NOT) of a floating point number's binary representation of a number is the same number but with a change in its sign?

Thank you to all possible references to articles or documentation.

Best Answer

IEEE 754 floating point numbers are represented as a sign, a mantissa and an exponent.

It is possible to work with floats at a bit level, but you need to know what you're doing.

Here are some documents which explain further.

http://www.engrng.pitt.edu/hunsaker/3097/floatingpoint.pdf

http://floating-point-gui.de/