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- In two's complement, what does the most significant bit indicate?
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The sign: 0 for positive, 1 for negative- To negate a number in two's complement, what two operations must you perform?
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Invert all bits, then add 1- What is the range of values representable in 8-bit two's complement?
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-128 to 127- Why is two's complement used instead of sign-magnitude representation?
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It has only one zero representation and simplifies arithmetic operations- What is the two's complement representation of -1 in 8-bit binary?
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11111111- What are the three fields in IEEE 754 single precision format?
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Sign, exponent, and significand (mantissa)- In IEEE 754 single precision, how many bits are allocated to the exponent field?
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8 bits- In IEEE 754 single precision, how many bits are allocated to the significand?
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23 bits, plus an implicit leading 1 for normalized numbers- What is the exponent bias in IEEE 754 single precision?
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127- What does the significand field in IEEE 754 represent?
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The precision and significant digits of the floating point number- What does the exponent field in IEEE 754 represent?
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The power of 2 by which the significand is scaled- In IEEE 754, how is positive infinity represented?
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Exponent all 1s, significand all 0s, sign bit 0- In IEEE 754, how is NaN (Not a Number) represented?
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Exponent all 1s, significand non-zero- What is a denormalized number in IEEE 754?
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A number with exponent all 0s, used to represent very small values closer to zero- In IEEE 754 double precision, how many total bits are used?
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64 bits (1 sign, 11 exponent, 52 significand)
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