COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

DATA REPRESENTATION AND NUMBER SYSTEMS

TWOS COMPLEMENT AND FLOATING POINT REPRESENTATION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Convert 88 to normalised floating point binary.
A
0.1011000 0101
B
1.0011000 0111
C
0.1011000 0111
D
0.1011000 0110
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Therefore, the binary equivalent of decimal number 88 is 1011000.

Detailed explanation-2: -Floating-point numbers are represented in computer hardware as base 2 (binary) fractions. For example, the decimal fraction 0.125 has value 1/10 + 2/100 + 5/1000, and in the same way the binary fraction 0.001 has value 0/2 + 0/4 + 1/8.

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