https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20283

          Issue ID: 20283
           Summary: CustomFloat.max_exp not working in some cases
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P1
         Component: phobos
          Assignee: nobody@puremagic.com
          Reporter: bugzilla@d-ecke.de

CustomFloat!(2, 6, CustomFloatFlags.nan).max_exp == 2^^5+1 but should be 2^^5.

The bias is 2^^(|6|-1)-1=31. The last -1, because nans are available. I derived this from how std.numeric defines the bias. (I don't know any external definition for numbers that do not comply to IEEE.) The maximum exponent is 0b111110=62, because 0b111111 is needed for nan. Therefore the maximum exponent of 2, that can be represented is 2^(62-31)=2^31. Therefore max_exp should be 32.

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