About floating point format

how the 64 bit floating point format used as the standard number format in Matlab is composed?

Which parts within that scheme is responsible for the precision and for the range of the numbers you can use?

What is the disadvantage of that number format.

For comparison, how is a 32 bit signed integer format composed. What is the limitations of this format (more than two)?

Answer 1

[James Tursa]

The 64-bit floating point format is IEEE double:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-precision_floating-point_format

The 32-bit signed integer format is 2's complement:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two%27s_complement