Difference between revisions of "CSC231 Final Exam 2015"
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* Submit a pdf with your answers in the Final Exam PB 2 section, on Moodle. Make sure you write your name at the top of the file! | * Submit a pdf with your answers in the Final Exam PB 2 section, on Moodle. Make sure you write your name at the top of the file! | ||
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| + | =Problem #3= | ||
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| + | Assume that we want to create a 16-bit version of the IEEE floating point format, with 1 sign bit, 7 bits for the exponent, and 8 bits of mantissa (1+7+8 = 16). | ||
| + | We want to follow the same rules IEEE used to define the 32-bit and 64-bit formats. | ||
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| + | ;Questions: | ||
| + | : what is the smallest normalized positive non-zero number we can represent with the new 16-bit format? | ||
| + | : what is the largest normalized positive non-infinite number we can represent? | ||
| + | : what is the smallest denormalized positive non-zero number we can represent? | ||
| + | : what binary or hex values represent + infinity, - infinity, and NaN? | ||
| + | : what is the bias of the exponent? | ||
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| + | Store your answers in a pdf, with your name at the top, and submit it to the Final PB 3 Section on Moodle. | ||
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