Multiplication and Division of Floating Points
Learn how to multiply and divide floating point numbers.
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Multiplication
For floating point multiplication, we decode the number and then carry out the following steps:
- Multiply the mantissae to get the mantissa
- Add the exponents to get the exponent
- Add the signs to get the sign
Let’s illustrate with an example, using our -bit floating point representation.
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