Thursday, October 4, 2007

Task 15

A 2 byte floating numbering system uses 10 places for the mantissa and 6 places for the exponant. conver the number 0100000000111101 into decimal by filling in the following table.

This number is positive, i know this because:
the first digit is a 0

The mantissa (with the decimal place inserted) is:
0.110000110

The exponant is 0000110 is positive because:
it begins with a 0

The denary equivaland is
+6

The decimal should move :
6 places to the right

The final denary is:
49.75

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

1 - 9 --- All Correct :D
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10 - 15 - Minus 1.5 marks
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You got 50