Floating Point Representation: Background: Part 3 of 3

[Chirriu]

Thank you very much for your tutorials. Very well explained, easy to understand :)

Greetings from Germany

[numericalmethodsguy]

It takes more computational time to conduct operations on floating point numbers than fixed point numbers, although computer architecture can make it equally efficient.

[an0nym005e]

so when comparing fixed point representation to floating point representation, the major advantages of floating point is that relative error is limited to a certain percent and that a wider range of numbers can be represented. are there other pros/cons?