Consider the following floating point format Mantissa is a pure fraction in…

GATE · 2005 · CS

Consider the following floating point format

GATECS2005Q84A

Mantissa is a pure fraction in sign-magnitude form. The normalized representation for the above format is specified as follows. The mantissa has an implicit 1 preceding the binary (radix) point. Assume that only 0's are padded in while shifting a field. The normalized representation of the above number (0.239 × 213) is:

  1. A.

    0A 20

  2. B.

    11 34

  3. C.

    4D D0

  4. D.

    4A E8

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