floating-point format

Systems Architecture
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Chapter3: Data Representation
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Encode the following valurs into the floating-point format discussed in the text. indicate the occurrence of truncation errors.

a. 2¼.    

b. 5¼.  

c. ¾.  

d. -3½  

e. -4⅜

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