This document discusses floating point arithmetic operations including:
- The components of a floating point number including the mantissa and exponent.
- Normalization of floating point numbers to have a leading nonzero digit in the mantissa.
- Common floating point operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division and how they are performed.
- The IEEE 754 standard for representing floating point numbers.
- How floating point arithmetic is implemented in hardware including registers and adders used to process mantissas and exponents.