082. OCR A Level (H446) SLR13 – 1.4 Floating point arithmetic

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About this video

OCR Specification Reference
A Level 1.4.1h

In this video we show you how to carry you binary arithmetic using floating point numbers, these are numbers with a fractional component e.g. 8.5 + 11.75. We do this with the aid of worked examples.

Key question:

- How do you preform arithmetic with floating-point numbers?

00:00 Floating point arithmetic
00:10 Intro
00:15 A note about this video
00:34 Adding normalised floating point numbers
2:34 Storing your result back as a normalised floating point number
04:32 Adding normalised floating point numbers
05:58 Subtracting normalised floating point numbers
08:15 Key question
08:26 Outro

Last updated: 06.07.26

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