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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ETSU/oai:dc.etsu.edu:computer-organization-design-oer-1022 |
| Date | 01 January 2020 |
| Creators | Tarnoff, David |
| Publisher | Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University |
| Source Sets | East Tennessee State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | audio/mpeg |
| Source | Computer Organization and Design Fundamentals Series |
| Rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
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