• Describe the format of binary floating-point real numbers
  • Use two’s complement form
  • Understand of the effects of changing the allocation of bits to mantissa and exponent in a floating-point representation
• Convert binary floating-point real numbers into denary and vice versa
• Normalise floating-point numbers
  • Understand the reasons for normalisation
• Show understanding of the consequences of a binary representation only being an approximation to the real number it represents (in certain cases)
  • Understand how underflow and overflow can occur
• Show understanding that binary representations can give rise to rounding errors