Thursday, 4 October 2007

Task 13

A one-byte floating-point numbering system uses 5 places for the mantissa and 3 for the exponent. Convert the number 1.5 into a normalised floating-point number using the following table to guide you.

Step 1 : 1.1
Step 2 : 0.1100
Step 3 : 1 Place to the right.
Step 4 : 001
Step 5 : 01100001

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