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What is the largest floating point number that can be represented using a 32-bit word?(a) 3*10^38(b) 1.7*10^38(c) 0.2*10^38(d) 0.3*10^38I had been asked this question by my college director while I was bunking the class.My question is from Representation of Numbers topic in portion Discrete Time Systems Implementation of Digital Signal Processing

Answer» CORRECT choice is (b) 1.7*10^38

Explanation: Let the MANTISSA be REPRESENTED by 23 BITS plus a sign bit and let the exponent be represented by 7 bits plus a sign bit.


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