Practice IEEE 754 Format - 9.1.5 | 9. Floating Point Number Representation | Computer Organisation and Architecture - Vol 1
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Question 1

Easy

What does the sign bit in IEEE 754 representation indicate?

💡 Hint: Remember, sign bits are essential for determining the number's sign.

Question 2

Easy

How many bits are used for the significand in single precision?

💡 Hint: Think of the total bits in single precision format.

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Question 1

What part of the IEEE 754 format indicates the number's sign?

  • Significand
  • Exponent
  • Sign Bit

💡 Hint: Think about what part of the representation indicates positivity or negativity.

Question 2

True or False: The significand is stored in normalized form in IEEE 754 representation.

  • True
  • False

💡 Hint: Recall how we standardize values in this format.

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Challenge Problems

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Question 1

How would you represent the decimal number -12.75 in IEEE 754 single precision format? Show all calculations.

💡 Hint: Keep the steps clear: sign, conversion, normalization, bias, then construction.

Question 2

Would a number represented as 0.111011 x 2^-3 have a different IEEE 754 representation than 0.111011 x 2^1? If so, calculate and show why.

💡 Hint: Pay attention to how the exponent affects the representation.

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