Practice Floating-point Number Formats (1.1.17.2) - Number Systems - Part A
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Floating-Point Number Formats

Practice - Floating-Point Number Formats

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Question 1 Easy

What does floating-point representation allow for?

💡 Hint: Think about numerical ranges.

Question 2 Easy

What is the main purpose of the exponent in floating-point representation?

💡 Hint: Consider how you'd express very large numbers.

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Question 1

What does the mantissa in a floating-point number represent?

💡 Hint: What is the core value when thinking about real numbers?

Question 2

Which standard is widely used for floating-point representation?

ISO-9001
IEEE-754
ANSI/ISO

💡 Hint: Think about computing standards for numerical representations.

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Challenge 1 Hard

Consider a floating-point number with a mantissa of 1.234 and an exponent of 2. What is the floating-point representation in binary with base 2?

💡 Hint: Think about how to convert decimals to binary.

Challenge 2 Hard

If an operation in floating-point arithmetic results in NaN, what could be potential causes? Discuss possible scenarios.

💡 Hint: Consider operations that lead to impossibilities in calculations.

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