Floating-Point Examples (Cont.)


Example IV
What are the largest normalized floating-point numbers in single and double precision?  


Question: What is the smallest normalized single-precision floating-point number?

Answer:   in positive value     in negative value


Exponent–Bias = 10    Significand = 10      




      Q: Why is 6 afraid of 7?    
      Q: A: Because 7810.