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Floating Point Representation

Floating Point Representation. Major: All Engineering Majors Authors: Autar Kaw, Matthew Emmons http://numericalmethods.eng.usf.edu Transforming Numerical Methods Education for STEM Undergraduates. Floating Point Representation http://numericalmethods.eng.usf.edu.

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Floating Point Representation

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  1. Floating Point Representation Major: All Engineering Majors Authors: Autar Kaw, Matthew Emmons http://numericalmethods.eng.usf.edu Transforming Numerical Methods Education for STEM Undergraduates http://numericalmethods.eng.usf.edu

  2. Floating Point Representationhttp://numericalmethods.eng.usf.edu

  3. Floating Decimal Point : Scientific Form http://numericalmethods.eng.usf.edu

  4. Example The form is or Example: For http://numericalmethods.eng.usf.edu

  5. Floating Point Format for Binary Numbers 1 is not stored as it is always given to be 1. http://numericalmethods.eng.usf.edu

  6. Example 9 bit-hypothetical word • the first bit is used for the sign of the number, • the second bit for the sign of the exponent, • the next four bits for the mantissa, and • the next three bits for the exponent We have the representation as mantissa exponent Sign of the number Sign of the exponent http://numericalmethods.eng.usf.edu

  7. Machine Epsilon Defined as the measure of accuracy and found by difference between 1 and the next number that can be represented http://numericalmethods.eng.usf.edu

  8. Example Ten bit word • Sign of number • Sign of exponent • Next four bits for exponent • Next four bits for mantissa Next number http://numericalmethods.eng.usf.edu

  9. Relative Error and Machine Epsilon The absolute relative true error in representing a number will be less then the machine epsilon Example 10 bit word (sign, sign of exponent, 4 for exponent, 4 for mantissa) Sign of the number exponent mantissa Sign of the exponent http://numericalmethods.eng.usf.edu

  10. IEEE 754 Standards for Single Precision Representationhttp://numericalmethods.eng.usf.edu

  11. IEEE-754 Floating Point Standard • Standardizes representation of floating point numbers on different computers in single and double precision. • Standardizes representation of floating point operations on different computers.

  12. One Great Reference What every computer scientist (and even if you are not) should know about floating point arithmetic! http://www.validlab.com/goldberg/paper.pdf

  13. IEEE-754 Format Single Precision 32 bits for single precision Biased Exponent (e’) Sign (s) Mantissa (m) 13

  14. Example#1 Biased Exponent (e’) Sign (s) Mantissa (m) 14

  15. Example#2 Represent -5.5834x1010 as a single precision floating point number. Biased Exponent (e’) Sign (s) Mantissa (m) 15

  16. Exponent for 32 Bit IEEE-754 8 bits would represent Bias is 127; so subtract 127 from representation 16

  17. Exponent for Special Cases Actual range of and are reserved for special numbers Actual range of

  18. Special Exponents and Numbers all zeros all ones

  19. IEEE-754 Format The smallest number by magnitude Machine epsilon The largest number by magnitude 19

  20. Additional Resources For all resources on this topic such as digital audiovisual lectures, primers, textbook chapters, multiple-choice tests, worksheets in MATLAB, MATHEMATICA, MathCad and MAPLE, blogs, related physical problems, please visit http://numericalmethods.eng.usf.edu/topics/floatingpoint_representation.html

  21. THE END http://numericalmethods.eng.usf.edu

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