Floating Point

1/18/01


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Table of Contents

Floating Point

Outline

Floating Point Notation

Floating Point in Binary

Normalised Notation

Representation

Representation

Squeezing out More from the Bits

Requirements

Bad Example: (1/2) > 2 ???

Representation of Exponent

Biased Representation (IEEE FP Standard)

Example 1

Example 2

Addition of FP Numbers

Addition Example

Remarks

Summary

 Author: Mel Slater

Email: clack@cs.ucl.ac.uk

Home Page: http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/C.Clack/