Practice - Floating Point Arithmetic Operations
Practice Questions
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What are the three main components of a floating-point number?
💡 Hint: Think about how each part defines the number.
What does the sign bit indicate in a floating-point number?
💡 Hint: Is it a 0 or a 1?
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Interactive Quizzes
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What does the mantissa of a floating-point number represent?
💡 Hint: Think about the role of mantissa in the structure.
True or False: In floating-point multiplication, the exponents of the two numbers need to be aligned before performing the operation.
💡 Hint: Recall how multiplication differs from addition.
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Challenge Problems
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Given a floating-point representation of +12.75 and -5.5 in binary, perform addition and show each step from extraction to normalization.
💡 Hint: Align exponents first! Look closely at the binary representations.
Explain how denormalized numbers help prevent errors in floating-point calculations close to zero.
💡 Hint: Think about why we need more granular representation near zero.
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