Saturday, June 25, 2011

Internet a floating Point representation


In floating point representation not only they are stored but the position of the decimal point is also taken  into consideration and stores separately.
                The actual number is termed as the mantissa and the decimal (binary) point is termed as the exponent. Depending upon the number system base or radix is assumed to be present but not defined.
                Foe example, if we have to represent 8.49, we can write it as 849 c 10-2 . This type of representation is called the scientific representation. Using this scientific representation, any number can be expressed as a combination of a mantissa and an exponent, or in other words, the number can be expressed as where is the mantissa is the radix of the number system and in the exponent.
                             Now converting the given number to the scientific from, we take.

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