Multiple choice

Consider the following floating point format

Mantissa is a pure fraction is sign-magnitude form.

The normalized representation for the above format is specified as follows. The mantissa has an implicit 1 preceding the binary (radix) point. Assume that only 0's are padded in while shifting a field. The normalized representation of the above number (0.239 x 213) is

  1. 0A 20

  2. 11 34

  3. 4D D0

  4. 4A E8

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D Correct answer
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