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[email protected]) Systems Software & Architecture Lab. Seoul National University Floating Points Fall 2018 ▪ How to represent fractional values with finite number of bits? • 0.1 • 0.612 • 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288... ▪ Wide ranges of numbers • 1 Light-Year = 9,460,730,472,580.8 km • The radius of a hydrogen atom: 0.000000000025 m 4190.308: Computer Architecture | Fall 2018 | Jin-Soo Kim (
[email protected]) 2 ▪ Representation • Bits to right of “binary point” represent fractional powers of 2 • Represents rational number: 2i i i–1 k 2 bk 2 k=− j 4 • • • 2 1 bi bi–1 • • • b2 b1 b0 . b–1 b–2 b–3 • • • b–j 1/2 1/4 • • • 1/8 2–j 4190.308: Computer Architecture | Fall 2018 | Jin-Soo Kim (
[email protected]) 3 ▪ Examples: Value Representation 5-3/4 101.112 2-7/8 10.1112 63/64 0.1111112 ▪ Observations • Divide by 2 by shifting right • Multiply by 2 by shifting left • Numbers of form 0.111111..2 just below 1.0 – 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + … + 1/2i + … → 1.0 – Use notation 1.0 – 4190.308: Computer Architecture | Fall 2018 | Jin-Soo Kim (
[email protected]) 4 ▪ Representable numbers • Can only exactly represent numbers of the form x / 2k • Other numbers have repeating bit representations Value Representation 1/3 0.0101010101[01]…2 1/5 0.001100110011[0011]…2 1/10 0.0001100110011[0011]…2 4190.308: Computer Architecture | Fall 2018 | Jin-Soo Kim (
[email protected]) 5 Fixed Points ▪ p.q Fixed-point representation • Use the rightmost q bits of an integer as representing a fraction • Example: 17.14 fixed-point representation