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I'm studying assembly language, can someone help me with this problem?

The floating point representation presented in this chapter(24-bit, 8-1-15 representation) might be modified by using more or less bits for the exponent. For example, you might use 9 bits for the exponent, leaving 15 bits for the mantissa. How many exponent( and hence mantissa) bits would be most approproate if you wished to use a single format in representing 172810 and 19174410. Use a calculator on this problem.( The excess code for an N-bit exponent would be excess-2N-1.)

Explanation / Answer

1. 172810

for the 8-1-15 configuration we can represent 1728

as the maximum value which can be represented using this is 8388352

2. 191744

You can represent this number with 8-1-15 configuration.

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