Multiple Precision Arithmetic Techniques

Definition A multiple precision (MP) number P is defined to consist of a sign, an exponent p which is a signed integer and a normalized fraction consisting of n consecutive positive words of storage. Normalization implies that the exponent is as small as possible and hence that the first digit of the first fraction word is non-zero provided P is non-zero. If the radix of the number system used is m and each word of the computer contains w digits, the capacity C of each word is m. Then