Implied fixed material doesn&#x27;t contribute precision. Otherwise we could pretend that there are twenty-four implied 1&#x27;s and the precision is 76 bits.<p>Because the implied 1 cannot be zero, it isn&#x27;t a bit; it doesn&#x27;t carry information.<p>For instance if we define a four bit binary number type which has an implied 1, it can only represent values from 16 to 31. That&#x27;s four bits of precision; the range is just displaced.