Episode 3.07 – Introduction to Floating Point Binary and IEEE 754 Notation
Regardless of the numeric base, scientific notation breaks numbers into three parts: sign, mantissa, and exponent. In this episode, we discuss how the computer stores those three parts to memory, and why IEEE 754 puts them together the way it does.
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Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University
2020
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| Online Access: | https://dc.etsu.edu/computer-organization-design-oer/23 https://dc.etsu.edu/context/computer-organization-design-oer/article/1022/type/native/viewcontent |