Floating Point Representation (Posse!)

Floating Point rep allows us to represent real numbers

We need two numbers to store it - The Mantissa and The Exponent

The Mantissa represents the actual number to represent the actual number

The Exponent represents the number of places to move the decimal place

Increasing the number of bits for the Mantissa increases the accuracy of the number

Increasing the number of bits for the Exponent increases the range of the number

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