CSE6040 - 4.2 - Points that 'float'

Question 1

A systematic way to store a floating number is:

Answer 1

Scientific notation

Question 2

Name the three components required to store a floating point number.

Answer 2

sign, significand and exponent. (as a 3 way tuple)

Question 3

If you allow at most six digits for the significand and two digits plus the sign for the exponent. give the value for 0.125 and then the generic version of it.

Answer 3

See pic

Question 4

How do you encode numbers with fractional parts in a systemic way using fixed-size encoding?

Answer 4

using a suple consisting of a sign, significand and exponent.