Floating Point Notation

• Decimal

  • 12.4568ten (decimal notation) means
    • 10*1 + 2 + 4/10 + 5/100 + 6/1000 + 8/10000
  • In scientific notation
    • 12.4568 =
      • 124568 * 10-4 = 1245680 * 10-5 =
      • 12456.8 * 10-3 = 1245.68 * 10-2 =
      • 124.568 * 10-1 =12.4568 * 100
      • 1.24568 * 101
    • 1.24568*101 is an example of normalised scientific notation.

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