T he decimal value 0.5 in ieee single precision floating point representation has a fraction bits of 000000 and exponent value of 0 fraction bits of 000000 and exponent value of 1 fraction bits of 100000 and exponent value of 0 d no exact representation
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The IEEE 754 standard specifies following distribution of bits:
Sign bit: 1 bit
Exponent width: 8 bits
Significand or Fraction: 24 (23 explicitly stored)
0.5 in base 10 means 1 X 2-1 in base 2.
So exponent bits have value -1 and all fraction bits are 0
Sign bit: 1 bit
Exponent width: 8 bits
Significand or Fraction: 24 (23 explicitly stored)
0.5 in base 10 means 1 X 2-1 in base 2.
So exponent bits have value -1 and all fraction bits are 0
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