In a normalised floating point representation, mantissa is represented using 24 bits and exponent with 8 bits using signed representation. What is range ?

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santos

  • Aug 30th, 2006
 

-126

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swatias

  • Jan 10th, 2007
 

Mantisa  range = + 2 ^ 23 to - 2^23

Exponent range = 127 to - 126

so total number range will be +2^23 * 10^127 to - 2^23*10^-126

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