What specific IEEE standard defines how floating-point numbers are stored and operated upon in most modern computers?

The specific IEEE standard that defines how floating-point numbers are stored and operated upon in most modern computers is IEEE 754. This standard, officially known as 'IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic', provides a uniform way to represent and compute with floating-point numbers, which are approximations of real numbers, ensuring consistent behavior across different computer architectures. It specifies several formats for representing these numbers, the most common being single-precision (32-bit) and double-precision (64-bit). In these formats, a floating-point number is comp....