CS Study

Electronic and Digital systems may use a variety of different number systems, (e.g. Decimal, Hexadecimal, Octal, Binary). A number N in base or radix b can be written as: (N) b = d n-1 d n-2 — — — — d 1 d 0 . d -1 d -2 — — — — d -m

1. To convert the floating point into decimal, we have 3 elements in a 32-bit floating point representation:     i) Sign     ii) Exponent     iii) Mantissa