Floating point division

1. What is floating point division?
2. Is division A floating point operation?
3. What is the difference between floating point division and integer division?

What is floating point division?

A floating point division where a number divides another number can be expressed as. Thus it can be said that in a floating point division, mantissas are divided and exponents are subtracted. The major steps for a floating point division are. Extract the sign of the result from the two sign bits.

Is division A floating point operation?

Arithmetic operations on floating point numbers consist of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. The operations are done with algorithms similar to those used on sign magnitude integers (because of the similarity of representation) — example, only add numbers of the same sign.

What is the difference between floating point division and integer division?

Float division: gives a decimal answer. Integer division: gives the answer in whole numbers (the division result is rounded to the nearest whole number).