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# binade

The floating-point value with the same sign and exponent as this value,
but with a significand of 1.0.

```
var binade: Float { get }
```

## Discussion

A *binade* is a set of binary floating-point values that all have the
same sign and exponent. The `binade` property is a member of the same
binade as this value, but with a unit significand.

In this example, `x` has a value of `21.5`, which is stored as
`1.34375 * 2**4`, where `**` is exponentiation. Therefore, `x.binade` is
equal to `1.0 * 2**4`, or `16.0`.

```
let x = 21.5
// x.significand == 1.34375
// x.exponent == 4

let y = x.binade
// y == 16.0
// y.significand == 1.0
// y.exponent == 4
```

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