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1 +++ 2 title = 'Adding/subtracting floating point values' 3 +++ 4 # Adding/subtracting floating point values 5 1. Choose a number with the smaller exponent and move its mantissa right to make the exponents equal. 6 2. Exponent of the result is the same as the larger exponent. 7 3. Add/subtract the mantissas, determine sign of the result. 8 4. Normalise the resulting values. 9 10 Example: 11 12 ![Scannable Document on 5 Dec 2017 at 23_07_42.png](doc.png)