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The Wilkinson Model

Dr. Holly Hirst
Appalachian State University
The Shodor Education Foundation
June 1998

  • Decimal Representation of Real Numbers

  • Normalized Floating Point Notation

  • Machine Representation
    • Radix (aka base)
    • Mantissa
    • Exponent
    • Storage
    • Arithmetic

  • The Wilkinson Set


  • Question: What are the smallest and largest positive numbers?

  • Simple Example: W(2, 3, -2, 2)


The Consequences of Solving Numerically


Last Update: June 6, 1998
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