Task 13

A one byte floating numbering system uses 5 places for the mantissa and 3 for the exponant. conver the number 1.5 into a normalised floating-point number.

Converting 1.5 into a fixed oint number gives:
1.1

The mantissa(with the decimal place inserted) is 5 digits long and must negin with 0.1. the mantissa is:
0.1100

To get the mantissa nack tot he original fixed point number, the decimal place must be moved:
one place to the right

The exponant, which is 3 digits long is:
001

Putting the mantissa and exponant together, the final answer is:
01100001