Lecture

Floating Point Representation in Computers

Description

This lecture covers the representation of real numbers in a computer using floating point representation, including the mantissa, exponent, and sign. It explains the use of simple and double precision, rounding errors, aligning exponents, and the dangers of significant digit cancellation.

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