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Authors:
Linda Null ,julia Lobur
Chapter:
Data Representation In Computer Systems
Exercise:
Review Of Essential Terms And Concepts
Question:18 | ISBN:9780763704445 | Edition: 3

Question

18. How many bits long is a double-precision number under the IEEE-754 floating-point standard?

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Answer

IEEE754 double precision : the Number of bits used for Double precision is 64 bits and the biased value is 1023

1(s)

11bits (E)

52(M)

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