082. AQA A Level SLR11 Floating point normalisation
About this video
AQA Specification Reference
A Level 4.5.7.8
This video continues our journey into binary floating point representation by taking a look at an important concept known as normalisation.
Key questions:
- How does a computer store fractions (real numbers)?
- What do we mean by normalised floating-point binary numbers?
00:00 Floating point normalisation
00:11 Intro
00:16 A note about this video
00:29 What are these numbers?
02:26 Normalising floating-point binary numbers
02:57 How to spot a normalised floating-point binary number
03:30 Representing fractional numbers using normalised floating-point binary - Example 1
05:27 Example 2
07:14 Example 3
09:29 Example 4
12:27 Key questions
12:40 Outro
Last updated: 04.09.25
