For 10 points, name these abstract entities which can be shifted, added, or multiplied by a computer.
BCD, one way of storing these objects, is close to the way humans use them, and the Gray code representation of them differs among adjacent points by one bit. Commonly used in microprocessors is two's complement notation for denoting these objects, and one format used in scientific computing comes in standard and double forms specified by IEEE 754. That technique uses a mantissa, sign bit, and (*) exponent and is called floating point, while most operations on these are fixed point and are done by the Arithmetic Logic Unit. For 10 points, name these abstract entities which can be shifted, added, or multiplied by a computer.
BCD, one way of storing these objects, is close to the way humans use them, and the Gray code representation of them differs among adjacent points by one bit.
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