15-213/18-243 Introduction to Computer Systems
Lecture 3: Floating Point

• Reading: Ch 2.4-2.5
• Slides: 03-float.pdf, 03-float-6up.pdf
• Sounds: Piano, 8bit, float, Piano, 8bit, int, Sine, 8bit, float, Sine, 8bit, int
• 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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