Floating point notation resources
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Binary 11: Converting Decimal numbers to floating point notation
This tutorial teaches students the floating point notation, using 2's complement for the exponent. It focuses on how to convert decimal numbers to floating point. There are 12 videos in the Binary series. This resource has been contributed under a Creative Commons licence to the mathcentre Community Project by Eva Szatmari and Catherine Griffiths, Birkbeck College, University of London and reviewed by Gill Whitney, Middlesex University. It is one of a series of 20 video resources funded by a sigma Resource Development grant.
Binary 12: Converting numbers in floating point notation to Decimal numbers
In this tutorial students can learn how to convert an 8 bits floating point number into decimal, building on the general knowledge of floating point notation. There are 12 videos in the Binary series. This resource has been contributed under a Creative Commons licence to the mathcentre Community Project by Eva Szatmari and Catherine Griffiths, Birkbeck College, University of London and reviewed by Gill Whitney, Middlesex University. It is one of a series of 20 video resources funded by a sigma Resource Development grant.