How do you convert from IEEE 754 single-precision floating-point format to decimal?

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I understand that the first bit is the sign and that the next 8 bits is the exponent. So in this example you would have 1.1001*2^-4 ? How do I then interpret this in decimal?

0 01111011 10010000000000000000000

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