In each of the following you are given a bit sequencecorresponding to the IEEE single precisionrepresentation of a floating-point number. In eachcase determine the base 2 floating-point representationof the number and also the base 10 decimalrepresentation of the number: 10111100010110000000000000000000

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In each of the following you are given a bit sequence
corresponding to the IEEE single precision
representation of a floating-point number. In each
case determine the base 2 floating-point representation
of the number and also the base 10 decimal
representation of the number: 10111100010110000000000000000000

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IEEE SINGLE PRECISION:

  • The IEEE single precision is a standard for computation for floating point computation given by IEEE standards.
  • This is one of the most common floating point number representation which is used by most of the computer systems.
  • IEEE standard consists of three components using which the representation is formed:
    • Sign bit - This gives the detail about the sign of the number, 0 represents that it is a positive number while 1 represents that it is a negative number.
    • Exponent - The biased number is added to the exponent to get the value of the stored exponent.
    • Mantissa - This is the part of the number which represent the notation about the floating point number.
  • It represent the dynamic range of values by the implementation of the floating radix point.
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