Chapter 21: Floating Point Number Representation
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Cray 3.................................................. 21.8
decimal oint alignment.................................. 21.4
denormalized............................................ 21.6
double precision........................................ 21.3
excess notation......................................... 21.2
exponent adjustment..................................... 21.4
exponent................................................ 21.1
floating point numbers.................................. 21.1
FLOPS................................................... 21.8
fraction................................................ 21.1
gigaflops............................................... 21.8
IEEE 754 floating point standard........................ 21.3
implied 1............................................... 21.7
implied decimal point................................... 21.7
INF..................................................... 21.7
loss of precision....................................... 21.4
magnitude............................................... 21.3
mantissa................................................ 21.1
multiplication hardware................................. 21.8
NaN..................................................... 21.7
normalized.............................................. 21.6
overflow................................................ 21.4
precision............................................... 21.3
real number............................................. 21.1
reciprocal.............................................. 21.4
scientific notation..................................... 21.1
single precision........................................ 21.3
special bit patterns (floating point numbers)........... 21.7
unnormalized............................................ 21.6