Terminology

Scientific Notation: 3.1557 x 109, 3.14.16 x 100, 3.1557 x 10-9

Normalized Number: 31.557 x 108 ---> 0.31557 x 1010

• General Form of Floating Point: 1.fffffffffff x 2eee

• Constituents are: sign, significand or mantissa and exponent

Decimal Fractions

0.110 1*10-1

0.4410 44*10-2

0.61210 612*10-3

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