1 votes 1 votes For a floating point representation with 64 bits in the mantissa and $12$ bits in the unbiased exponent, the number of significant digits in decimal and the maximum (positive) value of the exponent in decimal will be _______________________ CO and Architecture floating-point-representation co-and-architecture + – Anuj1995 asked Aug 4, 2018 edited Apr 21, 2020 by srestha Anuj1995 626 views answer comment Share Follow See all 0 reply Please log in or register to add a comment.
2 votes 2 votes The number of significant digits x in $64$ bits can be found as: $10^{x} = 2^{64}$ $=>x = 19.$ The maximum value of the exponent y in $12$ bits can be found as: $10^{y} = 2^{2047}$ $=> y = 616.$ [maximum positive number in $12$ bit $2’s$ complement is $2047$] for more :https://nptel.ac.in/content/storage2/courses/106105163/ASSIGNMENT-SOLUTION-WEEK8.pdf srestha answered Apr 21, 2020 edited Apr 21, 2020 by srestha srestha comment Share Follow See all 0 reply Please log in or register to add a comment.