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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