080. OCR A Level (H046-H446) SLR13 – 1.4 Floating point binary part 2 – Normalisation

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About this video

OCR Specification Reference
AS Level 1.4.1g
A Level 1.4.1g

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 a normalised floating-point binary number?

00:00 Floating point binary - Part 2: Normalisation
00:10 Intro
00:15 A note about this video
00:28 What are these numbers?
01:57 They all represent 1
02:20 Normalising floating point binary numbers
02:57 How to spot a normalised floating point binary number
03:27 Representing fractional numbers using normalised floating point binary: Example 1
05:26 Example 2
07:08 Example 3
09:26 Example 4
12:31 Key questions
12:44 Outro

Last updated: 06.07.26

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