Representation of Real  Numbers: Real numbers can be represented using the following two representations. ·         Fixed point Notation ·         Floating point notation Fixed point representation A fixed point number is one which is stored  with fixed number of bits for integer part and also a fixed number of bits for the fraction part. It has the following parts ·         Integer Part ·         binary Point ·         Fraction Part IIIIIIIIIIIII . FFFFFF Suppose we have 8 bits storage to store a real number, of these 5 bits to store the integer part and 3 bits to store the fractional part as shown below: ( 1    0    1    0    1 . 1    0    1)2 = 1*24  +0*23 +  1*22 + 0*21 + 1*20 +   1*2-1 + 0*2-2 + 1*2-3 Smallest and largest Fixed point number With 8 bit