079. OCR A Level (H046-H446) SLR13 – 1.4 Floating point binary part 1 – Overview
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Binary must be able to represent a wide range of numbers, not just positive and negative whole numbers, but numbers with a fractional part such as 7.25. In this video we show you how this is achieved with a concept called floating point representation.
Last updated: 04.09.25
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