IEEE 754

Question

In IEEE double precision format, the sum of the largest and 2nd largest implicit fractional numbers is

Comments

Corrected now @mohit! Thanks :)

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@ Ashwin Kulkarni

i think in the case o f double precision...baised used is 1023 

and bit allocated for mantisa is 53....

therefor largest number in double precision would be...like this...

1.11111 (53 times)* 2^{1024  l
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(2-2^-53)  ..* 2¹⁰²⁴  isn't it?

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@awsin

bias should be used : 1023

we can't use 1024 as bias, why because 2047 is used for representing infinity

@hs_yadav

we use 52 only for mantissa