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Floating Point

GATE CSE & IT · Computer Architecture - Floating Point Representation · 2004-2026

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2026 PYQ

The 32-bit IEEE 754 single precision representation of a number is 0xC2710000. The number in decimal representation is $\_\_\_\_$ . (rounded off to two decimal places)

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2025 Q49

Three floating point numbers X, Y, and Z are stored in three registers Rx, Ry, and Rz, respectively in IEEE 754 single precision format as given below in hexadecimal: Rx = 0xC11000...

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2025 PYQ

Three floating point numbers $X, Y$, and $Z$ are stored in three registers $R_X, R_Y$, and $R_Z$, respectively in IEEE 754 single precision format as given below in hexadecimal: $$...

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2024 Q14

The format of a single-precision floating-point number as per the IEEE 754 standard is: Sign (1bit) Exponent (8 bits) Mantissa (23 bits) Choose the largest floating-point number am...

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2024 PYQ

The format of a single-precision floating-point number as per the IEEE 754 standard is: Sign (1 bit) Exponent (8 bits) Mantissa (23 bits) Choose the largest floating-point number a...

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2023 PYQ

Consider the IEEE-754 single precision floating point numbers P=0xC1800000 and Q=0x3F5C2EF4. Which one of the following corresponds to the product of these numbers (i.e., P $$\time...

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2021 PYQ

Consider the following representation of a number in IEEE 754 single-precision floating point format with a bias of 127. S: 1 E: 10000001 F : 11110000000000000000000 Here S, E and...

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2021 PYQ

The format of the single-precision floating-point representation of a real number as per the IEEE 754 standard is as follows: sign exponent mantissa Which one of the following choi...

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2020 PYQ

Consider three registers R1, R2 and R3 that store numbers in IEEE-754 single precision floating point format. Assume that R1 and R2 contain the values (in hexadecimal notation) 0x4...

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2017 Q12

Given the following binary number in 32-bit (single precision) IEEE-754 format: 00111110011011010000000000000000. The decimal value closest to this floating-point number is

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2014 PYQ

The value of a float type variable is represented using the single-precision $$32$$-bit floating point format of $$IEEE-754$$ standard that uses $$1$$ bit for sign, $$8$$ bits for...

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2012 PYQ

The decimal value $$0.5$$ in $$IEEE$$ single precision floating point representation has

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2008 PYQ

In the $$IEEE$$ floating point representation the hexadecimal value $$0\, \times \,00000000$$ corresponds to

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2004 PYQ

What is the result of evaluating the following two expressions using three $$-$$ digit floating point arithmetic with rounding? $$\eqalign{ & \left( {113. + - 111.} \right) + 7.51...

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