Practice - Structure of a Floating Point Number: Sign, Exponent, Mantissa (Significand)
Practice Questions
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What does the sign bit represent in a floating-point number?
💡 Hint: Think about what the 'sign' refers to.
How does the exponent affect the floating-point number?
💡 Hint: Consider how this impacts large and small numbers.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What does a sign bit of 1 represent in a floating-point number?
💡 Hint: Think about what 'negative' means.
The mantissa in a floating-point number represents what?
💡 Hint: Remember its role in determining value.
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Challenge Problems
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Convert the decimal number 3.125 into a normalized floating-point representation using a sign bit, exponent, and mantissa in IEEE 754 format. Assume single-precision.
💡 Hint: Follow each conversion step carefully.
Given a floating-point number with sign bit 1, exponent 130, and mantissa 0.101, what is its decimal value? How would the value change if the exponent were 128 instead?
💡 Hint: Pay attention to how the exponent adjusts the final value.
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