I really am in need of understanding floating point arithmetic, and I need an indepth knowledge of floating point arithmetic. The behaviour of most books that just touch the subject is like described in here in this page. But honestly even the concept in the site, I found to be similar to the problem.
So, I need a book that goes on explaining the concepts of the number system that describe everything that is needed to understand floating point arithmetic, that lays a foundation of all the requirements like: excess-127 code.
(Basically I quit my book when I did not understand from where the E-127 came in the exponent of 2 in the floating point representation and weird terms like 1-plus form when I've never heard of it. Books that are not meant for entirely floating points don't clearly explain such concepts.)