IEEE Floating Point Standard
What Is The IEEE FP Standard?
History of Floating Point Standards
Essence of the IEEE Standard
Essence Continued
32 Bit Format
32 Bit Format Continued
Exercise
Special Numbers
Range of Exponent Values
Numerical Precision
Numerical Precision Cont’d
64 Bit IEEE Format
80 Bit Register Format
Infinities
Why NaNs?
Floating Point Error Models
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