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C++ for Engineers and Scientists
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Chapter12: Adding Functionality To Your Classes
Section12.2: Providing Class Conversion Capabilities
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In the following real number representation system with a fixed word length:


sign × mantissa × baseexponent


Which term in the word should be allocated less bits in order to decrease the range of representable numbers?


a) Sign
b) Mantissa
c) Decreasing the number of bits on any of the terms has no effect upon range
d) Base
e) Exponent
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