This document discusses different methods of data representation in computer systems, including fixed point representation, integer representation, and floating point representation. It focuses on floating point representation, which stores numbers in scientific notation with three fields - a sign bit, exponent, and mantissa. The exponent specifies the position of the radix point, while the mantissa stores the significant digits of the number. For efficiency, floating point numbers are usually normalized by shifting the radix point to the left such that the most significant digit of the mantissa is non-zero.