Thursday, 4 October 2007

Task 14

A two-byte floating-point numbering system uses 10 places for the mantissa and 6 for the exponent. Convert the number 0111 1010 0000 0101 into decimal by filling in the following table:

Step 1 : The first bit is a 0.
Step 2 : 0.111101000
Step 3 : The first bit is a 0.
Step 4 : Denary Equivalent : 5
Step 5 : The Decimal place must be moved 5 places to the right.
Step 6 : 011110.1000
Step 7 : 11110.1
Step 8 : 30.5

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