How to represent real numbers

11/16/98


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How to represent real numbers

Real numbers representation inside computer

Floating-point representation: IEEE Standard

Example: MIPS representation

MIPS representation (ct’ed)

Biased exponent

Normalization

Double precision

Floating-Point Addition

F-P add (details for round-off omitted)

Using pipelining

Floating-point multiplication

Pipelining

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