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GATE CSE 1996
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Consider the following floating point number representation GATE CSE 1996 Computer Organization - Computer Arithmetic Question 13 English

The exponent is in $$2’s$$ complement representation and mantissa is in the sign magnitude representation. The range of the magnitude of the normalized mantissa in this representation is

A
$$0$$ to $$1$$
B
$$0.5$$ to $$1$$
C
$${2^{ - 23}}$$ to $$0.5$$
D
$$0.5$$ to $$\left( {1 - {2^{ - 23}}} \right)$$

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