Thursday, 4 October 2007

Task 18

A two-byte floating-point numbering system uses 10 places for the mantissa and 6 for the exponent. Convert the number 2.75 into a normalised floating-point number using the following table to guide you.

Step 1 : Converting 2.75 gives us 10.11

Step 2 : 0.101100000

Step 3 : The decimal place needs to be moved 2 places to the right.

Step 4 : 000010

Step 5 : Final Floating-Point number : 0101 1000 0000 0010


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