On 32-bit machines, Muq muf supports 27-bit floats: the host 32-bit floating-point format minus five bits off the bottom. (The "missing" five bits are used internally to distinguish float values from, for example, int and character values.) The syntax follows the C standard:
123.0 -412.12e-12
Neither full single precision nor double precision floats are currently supported; it is possible that a future release of Muq will do so.
Note: It is likely that a future release will switch from using C float syntax to using Lisp float syntax, which is similar but not identical. (And, as usual, more complicated.)
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