Any one kind enough to explain the IEEE 754 Floating-Point Format? (1 Viewer)

[juventino]

Any one kind enough to explain the IEEE 754 Floating-Point Format (32-bit)?

It's a tad confusing....

 

[Winston]

What don't you get about it, you have the mantissa and the exponent your two main things if i remember right the 754 is the 32 bit precision.

 

[juventino]

The process of working through it....

For instance, change +257

 

[Winston]

change +257 into IEEE?

 

[fatmuscle]

see fatmuscle's notes
I hear they're really good

 

[Rahul]

lol, those notes were surprisingly helpful for this bit....

 

[fatmuscle]

see, what did i tell u?

 

[juventino]

Where from?

 

[fatmuscle]

the resources section

http://www.boredofstudies.org/view.php?course=19