Thursday, 4 October 2007

Task 17

A two-byte floating-point numbering system uses 10 places for the mantissa and 6 for the exponent. Convert the number 12.5 into a normalised floating-point number using the following table to guide you.

Step 1 : 12.5 as a fixed-point number is 1100.1

Step 2 : 0.110010000

Step 3 : Needs moved 4 places to the right.

Step 4 : 000100

Step 5 : 0110 0100 0000 0100

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