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Adding/subtracting floating point values

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Adding/subtracting floating point values

Choose a number with the smaller exponent and move its mantissa right to make the exponents equal.
Exponent of the result is the same as the larger exponent.
Add/subtract the mantissas, determine sign of the result.
Normalise the resulting values.

Example:

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