Chapter 21: Floating Point Number Representation
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Section 1: Real numbers inside computer memories
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Section 2: Encoding real numbers as floating point numbers
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Section 3: Limitations
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Section 4: Real addition
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Section 5: Real multiplication
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Section 6: Normalized, unnormalized, and denormalized numbers
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Section 7: Storing the first digit
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Section 8: Hardware to compute floating point arithmetic
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