Chapter 7: Floating Point Considerations

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Floating Point Considerations

CHAPTER CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

7.1 FLOATING-POINT FORMAT

7.1.1 Normalized Representation of M

7.1.2 Excess Encoding of E

7.2 REPRESENTABLE NUMBERS

7.3 SPECIAL BIT PATTERNS AND PRECISION

7.4 ARITHMETIC ACCURACY AND ROUNDING

7.5 ALGORITHM CONSIDERATIONS

7.6 SUMMARY

7.7 EXERCISES

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