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title: "Correct Decimal to Floating Point Using Big Integers"
date: 2024-02-26T16:52:14+01:00
lastmod: 2026-10-16T19:06:54+02:00
url: https://klimek.link/posts/2024-02-26-correct-decimal-to-floating-point-using-big-integers/
author: "Marcin Klimek"
source: https://klimek.link/posts/2024-02-26-correct-decimal-to-floating-point-using-big-integers/
---

# Correct Decimal to Floating Point Using Big Integers

Exploring Binary is a whole site about binary numbers, from arithmetic to oddities like bicimals (binary decimals), binary palindromes and visualizations. The part the title refers to is conversion between decimal and floating-point binary, with the maths behind it, how long a number gets in decimal versus binary, and how to round correctly when you convert.

All of it is listed on the [Exploring Binary](https://www.exploringbinary.com/topics/) topics page.

Source: https://klimek.link/posts/2024-02-26-correct-decimal-to-floating-point-using-big-integers/