Practice - Floating-Point Numbers
Practice Questions
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What does the significand represent in floating-point notation?
💡 Hint: Focus on what part of the number is emphasized in floating-point.
What is normalization in floating-point representation?
💡 Hint: Think of how you might write scientific notation.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is the main advantage of floating-point representation?
💡 Hint: Think about why we need a more extensive representation.
True or False: The significand is also known as the mantissa.
💡 Hint: Consider word associations you've learned.
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Challenge Problems
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Convert the decimal number 0.000512 into floating-point representation.
💡 Hint: Shift the position to achieve normalization and ensure the exponent is accounted for.
Explain what would happen if we used too few bits for the exponent in floating-point representation?
💡 Hint: Consider the extreme values outside the range.
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