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Floating Point Multiplication and Division

Eric Huggins

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Earlier when considering arithmetic with integers, it was seen that multiplication and division in the microcomputer are much more complicated than addition and subtraction. Fortunately, in floating point arithmetic this is not true. In fact multiplication is simpler.

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Earlier when considering arithmetic with integers, it was seen that multiplication and division in the microcomputer are much more complicated than addition and subtraction. Fortunately, in floating point arithmetic this is not true. In fact multiplication is simpler.

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Earlier when considering arithmetic with integers, it was seen that multiplication and division in the microcomputer are much more complicated than addition and subtraction. Fortunately, in floating point arithmetic this is not true. In fact multiplication is simpler.

Key concepts: Division (mathematics), Multiplication (music), Arithmetic, Subtraction, Point (geometry), Floating point, Computer science, Mathematics

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