csnotes/cst337/lec/lec17.md

floating point

mips uses ieee754

parts of floats

1. Sign bit
2. Exponent
3. Mantissa

32-bit floats btw

Sign

bruh

exponent

This is coming from scientific notation so we have 2.0E3

This means our 8 bit exponent is 0000 0011 + 0111 1111

Mantissa

let's roll with 2.0E3

Mantiss of 2.0 = 0 <- 23 times

We have 23 0's because the decimal portion of our number 2.0E3 is 0.