//Example No. 4_11 //Addition of Chain of Numbers //Pg No. 77 clear ; close ; clc ; x = 9678 ; y = 678 ; z = 78 ; d = 4 ; //length of mantissa fx = x/10^4 fy = y/10^4 fu = fx + fy Eu = 4 if fu >= 1 then fu = fu/10 Eu = Eu + 1 end //since length of mantissa is only four we need to maintain only four places in decimal, so fu = floor(fu*10^4)/10^4 u = fu * 10^Eu w = u + z n = length(string(w)) w = floor(w/10^(n-4))*10^(n-4) //To maintain length of mantissa = 4 disp(w,'w = ') True_w = 10444 ew = True_w - w er_w = (True_w - w)/True_w disp(er_w,'er,w = ',ew,'ew = ',True_w,'True w = ')