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Consider the following IEEE single precision format

A fractional number X is stored as (80700000)16. The decimal equivalent of X is ______.

 

 

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Acc to single precision format as E=0, M ~=0 then use fraction form:

here we have convert the number to base 2 using 4 digits because of base 8.

Now first 1 bit is sign bit and next 8 bits are Exponent and remaining bits are M.

You can convert fraction number to decimal (0.875).