How to express -608 in normalised mantissa-exponent form?

[Yoo Song Won]

Does anyone know how to express -608 in normalised mantissa-exponent form? 

 

I also would like to see how it is done as I don't know how to get the answers.

 

Thank you.

[Mira Yurizaki]

What format are you using?

[colonel_mortis]

Assuming you're talking about IEEE 754 floating point numbers (the floating point representation in the majority of programming languages), and you want the 32 bit version (float in C), the representation is

• 1 bit for the sign
• 8 bits for the exponent
• 23 bits for the mantissa

They are all represented in binary, which means that the normalised mantissa has the form 1.xxxxx..., so that 1 is implicit, and not represented in the number directly.

• The sign bit will be 1, because it's negative.
• The exponent will be 9 = 00001001₂ because the largest power of 2 ≤608 is 512 = 2⁹
• For the mantissa, 608 = 512 + 64 + 32 = 2⁹ + 2⁶ + 2⁵ = 1001100000₂. We drop the leading 1, because that is implied, so the mantissa becomes 001100000, and is then right padded with 0 (to fill the decimal places)

The resulting number is 1 00001001 00110000000000000000000₂, representing -1.001100000₂ × 2⁹ = -1.1875₁₀ × 2⁹ = -1.1875 × 512 = -608.

(Notation: 101₂ means the binary number 101, which is 5 in decimal (5₁₀)),

[LukeSavenije]

41 minutes ago, colonel_mortis said:

Assuming you're talking about IEEE 754 floating point numbers (the floating point representation in the majority of programming languages), and you want the 32 bit version (float in C), the representation is

• 1 bit for the sign
• 8 bits for the exponent
• 23 bits for the mantissa

They are all represented in binary, which means that the normalised mantissa has the form 1.xxxxx..., so that 1 is implicit, and not represented in the number directly.

• The sign bit will be 1, because it's negative.
• The exponent will be 9 = 00001001₂ because the largest power of 2 ≤608 is 512 = 2⁹
• For the mantissa, 608 = 512 + 64 + 32 = 2⁹ + 2⁶ + 2⁵ = 1001100000₂. We drop the leading 1, because that is implied, so the mantissa becomes 001100000, and is then right padded with 0 (to fill the decimal places)

The resulting number is 1 00001001 00110000000000000000000₂, representing -1.001100000₂ × 2⁹ = -1.1875₁₀ × 2⁹ = -1.1875 × 512 = -608.

(Notation: 101₂ means the binary number 101, which is 5 in decimal (5₁₀)),