Practice - Ranges and Accuracy of Floating Point Numbers
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Practice Questions
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What are the three components of a floating point representation?
💡 Hint: Think about the bits involved in the representation.
Explain how biased exponent works in next slide reference.
💡 Hint: Recall the example of how we converted '20' into '147'.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What does the sign bit indicate in floating-point representation?
💡 Hint: Remember the basic definition of sign in math.
The IEEE 754 standard is used for what?
💡 Hint: Think of global computing standards.
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Challenge Problems
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Demonstrate how a number like 1.5 can be represented in both binary and floating-point format. Provide both representations.
💡 Hint: Remember to normalize the representation before applying bias.
Given a 64-bit representation, explain how to calculate the range of representable values.
💡 Hint: Consider how much you add based on the bits allocated for the exponent.
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