implement an exponent compression scheme for succinct coding of values between -0.99999.. to 0.99999.. excluding +/-0. the new scheme replaces the current integer coding that uses the zero exponent code with a new scheme that prepends exponent as a unary code prefix in the mantissa adding only several bits of information versus an entire extra byte.
many f32 values between -0.99999.. to 0.99999 fit 4 bytes or less
most f64 values between -0.99999.. to 0.99999 fit 8 bytes or less
implement an exponent compression scheme for succinct coding of values between -0.99999.. to 0.99999.. excluding +/-0. the new scheme replaces the current integer coding that uses the zero exponent code with a new scheme that prepends exponent as a unary code prefix in the mantissa adding only several bits of information versus an entire extra byte.
Closes #2