15-213/18-243 Introduction to Computer Systems
Lecture 4: Floating Point

• Reading: Ch 2.4
• Slides: 04-float
• Notes: 04-float-notes
• Code: none
• Concepts:
  • Binary fractions
  • IEEE floating point standard
  • Normalized values
  • Denormalized values
  • Floats and double in C
  • Rounding and floating point operations
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