| If you recall, run-of-the-mill DSPs typically store numbers as a floating-point, 24-bit mantissa and an 8-bit exponent. |
| If any overflow shifts the result to the right, then map with antilogarithm LUT to obtain the mantissa of the result. |
| In scientific notation, a number is displayed with its mantissa at the left and a two-digit exponent at the right. |
| In these cases, the 24-bit fixed standard is equivalent to the 24-bit mantissa, plus 8-bit exponent used in the 32-bit, floating-point version. |
| The mantissa provides the significant information, or digits, and the exponent provides a scaling factor that shows how big the number is. |
| In the JPL scheme, the total power of each sample is computed and stored in 2 bytes, one for the mantissa and one for the exponent. |
