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26 - Floating Point Number Normalisation

 1. The objectives of normalisation include:

  Unambiguous representation (clear and precise without any confusion)

  to simplify arithmetic

  to maximise precision

  All of the above

 2. The idea behind normalisation (put simply) is that the leading digits of the _________________________ and the exponent increased instead wherever possible.

  exponent are removed where possible

  CPU register are added to, if possible

  mantissa are removed where possible

  binary byte are removed where possible

 3. For positive numbers, the normalised form starts with a ___________________

  1 followed immediately by a zero

  zero followed by two 1s

  1 followed by a point and two leading zeros

  zero followed immediately by a 1

 4. For negative numbers, the normalised form starts with a 1 followed immediately by a zero.

  TRUE

  FALSE

 5. The goal of normalisation, put simply, is to get the binary point in the right position and adjust the_________ accordingly.

  None of the above

  radix or point

  mantissa's zero

  exponent

 6. This floating point number is stored using 4 bits for both the mantissa and exponent (both two’s complement). You can see straight away that this is not normalised because it ____
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  ends with a 1

  starts with three zeros

  does not end with a zero

  does not start with a 1

 7. Typically, the binary point is positioned immediately to the right of the sign bit.

  TRUE

  FALSE

 8. Normalise this floating point number that has 4 bits (in two’s complement) for the mantissa and the same for the exponent.
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  Answer:01000001

  Answer:01001111

  Answer:01010101

  Answer:01001010

 9. The floating point number 11000001 is stored using 4 bits for the mantissa and 4 bits for the exponent, both in two's complement. Normalising it would result in:

  Answer: 1100000

  Answer: 01111111

  Answer: 10000000

  Answer: 1000001

 10. The floating point binary number 11101011 is stored using 5 bits for the mantissa and 3 bits for the exponent, both in two's complement. Normalising it would give:

  Answer: 10100001

  Answer: 1010111

  Answer: 00100001

  Answer: 11100001

 11. To normalise positive two's complement numbers, all the leading zeros should be removed with the exception of a single zero.

  FALSE

  TRUE

 12. To normalise negative two's complement numbers, the leading zeros, instead of the leading ones, should be removed (identical to the process for + numbers)

  TRUE

  FALSE

 13. For a two’s complement representation, the truncation error is always positive.

  FALSE

  TRUE

 14. Konrad Zuse was the architect of the Z3 computer, which used a 22-bit binary floating-point representation.
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  FALSE

  TRUE

 15. The binary point between the digits b0 and b1 does not exist physically in the computer.
Note: …..or to put it simply, the logic circuits of the computer are designed such that the computations result in numbers that correspond to the assumed location of this point.

  TRUE

  FALSE