Question 7    For IEEE 754 single precision floating point numbers, how many bits for mantisa? Question 7 options:   a.   7   b.   31   c.   23   d.  8   e.  None of the above

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For IEEE 754 single precision floating point numbers, how many bits for mantisa?

Question 7 options:

 

a.   7

 

b.   31

 

c.   23

 

d.  8

 

e.  None of the above

Question 8 

 

For IEEE 754 single precision floating point numbers, what is the excess for  a denormalized floating point number in decimal ?

Question 8 options:

 

a.   -126

 

b.   -127

 

c.   126

 

d.  127

 

e.  None of the above

Question 11 

 

For IEEE 754 single precision floating point numbers, which of following is  positive infinity ?

Question 11 options:

 

a.    0 111    1 111    1000   0000  0000  0000   0000  0000

 

b.    0 111    1 111    1000   0000  1101   0000   0000  0000

 

c.    1 111    1 111    1000   0000  0000   0000   0000  0000

 

d.  1 111    1 111    0000   0000  0000   0000   0000  0000

 

e.  None of the above

Question 12

For IEEE 754 single precision floating point numbers in hexadecimal, which of following is  a negative denormalized floating point number?

Question 12 options:

 

a.    8  0   8   0  0  0  0  0

 

b.    0  0   0   0  C  0 0  0

 

c.    8  0   0   0  0  0  0  0

 

d.    F  F    0   0  0  0  0  0

 

e.  None of the above

Question 13

 

Assume we use 8-bit cell to store floating point numbers, 1 bit for sign, 3 bits for excessed  exponent, and 4 bits for significand. What is the decimal value for a cell with bit pattern  1 000  1000

Question 13 options:

 

a.  - 0.375

 

b.  - 0.125

 

c.  - 0.1875

 

d.  136

 

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