Task 17

A 2 byte floating point numbering system uses 10 places for the mantissa and 6 for the exponant. Convert the number 12.5 into a normalised floating point number using the following table to guide you.

Converting 12.5 into a fixed point number gives me:
1100.1

The mantissa(witht he decimal place inserted) is 10 digits long and must bgin with 0.1. the mantissa is:
0.110010000

To get the mantissa back to the original fixed place number, the decimal place:
Move the decimal place 4 places to the right

Putting the mantissa and the exponent together, the final answer is :
0110010000000100