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On SPIM, a constant of -0.1 is represented as 0xBDCCCCCD because the value is rounded up one bit to form the "D" at the end.

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• The advantages of floating point.
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• IEEE 754 Floating Point Standard
• The mantissa.
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• Floating point zero.
• Formula for floating point.