COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

DATA REPRESENTATION AND NUMBER SYSTEMS

TWOS COMPLEMENT AND FLOATING POINT REPRESENTATION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
In normalised floating point form, a negative number always has what beginning?
A
01
B
10
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -A normalised positive number always starts as 0, point, 1, 0.1. A normalised negative number always starts as 1, point, 0, 1.0.

Detailed explanation-2: -The number 0.1 in floating-point The finite representation of 1/10 is 0.0 0011 ‾ 0.0

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