IEEE floating point format

[Blair P. Houghton]

In article <9697 at alice.UUCP> ark at alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) writes:
>	exponent all 1's	fraction == 0		infinity
>	exponent all 1's	fraction != 0		NaN
>	exponent all 0's				denormalized

Fascinating; but, what does it mean to say "denormalized" in this context?

				--Blair
				  "Webster is mute on this
				   topic, and I'm only a SM."