Practice - IEEE 754 Format
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Practice Questions
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What does the sign bit in IEEE 754 representation indicate?
💡 Hint: Remember, sign bits are essential for determining the number's sign.
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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Interactive Quizzes
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What part of the IEEE 754 format indicates the number's sign?
💡 Hint: Think about what part of the representation indicates positivity or negativity.
True or False: The significand is stored in normalized form in IEEE 754 representation.
💡 Hint: Recall how we standardize values in this format.
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Challenge Problems
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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.
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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