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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.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:ETSU/oai:dc.etsu.edu:computer-organization-design-oer-1022
Date01 January 2020
CreatorsTarnoff, David
PublisherDigital Commons @ East Tennessee State University
Source SetsEast Tennessee State University
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Formataudio/mpeg
SourceComputer Organization and Design Fundamentals Series
Rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

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