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)