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GATE CS Number Representations (Fixed and Floating Point) questions

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Official PYQ2005Digital LogicNumber Representations (Fixed and Floating Point)MCQ · 1 mark
Consider the following floating-point format. Mantissa is a pure fraction in sign-magnitude form. The normalized representation for the above format is specified as follows. The mantissa has an implicit 11 preceding the binary (radix) point. Assume that only 0’s0’s are padded in while shifting a field. The normalized representation of the above number …
Official PYQ2005Digital LogicNumber Representations (Fixed and Floating Point)MCQ · 1 mark
Consider the following floating-point format. Mantissa is a pure fraction in sign-magnitude form. The decimal number 0.239×2130.239 \times 2^{13} has the following hexadecimal representation (without normalization and rounding off):
Official PYQ2005Digital LogicNumber Representations (Fixed and Floating Point)MCQ · 1 mark
The hexadecimal representation of (657)8 is:
Official PYQ2005Digital LogicNumber Representations (Fixed and Floating Point)MCQ · 1 mark
The range of integers that can be represented by an nn bit 2’s2’s complement number system is:
Official PYQ2004Digital LogicNumber Representations (Fixed and Floating Point)MCQ · 1 mark
Let A=11111010A = 1111 1010 and B=00001010B = 0000 1010 be two 8−bit8-bit 2’s2’s complement numbers. Their product in 2’s2’s complement is
Official PYQ2004Digital LogicNumber Representations (Fixed and Floating Point)MCQ · 1 mark
What is the result of evaluating the following two expressions using three-digit floating point arithmetic with rounding? (113.+−111.)+7.51(113. + -111.) + 7.51 113.+(−111.+7.51)113. + (-111. + 7.51)
Official PYQ2004Digital LogicNumber Representations (Fixed and Floating Point)MCQ · 1 mark
If 73x73_x (in base-x number system) is equal to 54y54_y (in base yy-number system), the possible values of xx and yy are
Official PYQ2003Digital LogicNumber Representations (Fixed and Floating Point)MCQ · 1 mark
The following is a scheme for floating point number representation using 1616 bits. Let s,e,s, e, and mm be the numbers represented in binary in the sign, exponent, and mantissa fields respectively. Then the floating point number represented is: …
Official PYQ2003Digital LogicNumber Representations (Fixed and Floating Point)MCQ · 1 mark
Assuming all numbers are in 2’s2’s complement representation, which of the following numbers is divisible by 1111101111111011?
Official PYQ2002Digital LogicNumber Representations (Fixed and Floating Point)MCQ · 1 mark
In 2′s2's complement addition, overflow
Official PYQ2002Digital LogicNumber Representations (Fixed and Floating Point)MCQ · 1 mark
Sign extension is a step in
Official PYQ2002Digital LogicNumber Representations (Fixed and Floating Point)MCQ · 1 mark
The decimal value 0.250.25
Official PYQ2002Digital LogicNumber Representations (Fixed and Floating Point)MCQ · 1 mark
The 2′s2's complement representation of the decimal value −15-15 is
Official PYQ2001Digital LogicNumber Representations (Fixed and Floating Point)MCQ · 1 mark
The 2′s2's complement representation of (-539)10 in hexadecimal is
Official PYQ2000Digital LogicNumber Representations (Fixed and Floating Point)MCQ · 1 mark
Consider the values of A=2.0×1030,B=−2.0×1030,C=1.0,A = 2.0 \times 10^{30}, B = -2.0 \times 10^{30}, C = 1.0, and the sequence X:= A + B Y:= A + C X:= X + C Y:= Y + B executed on a computer where floating point numbers are represented with 3232 bits. The values for XX and YY will be
Official PYQ2000Digital LogicNumber Representations (Fixed and Floating Point)MCQ · 1 mark
The number 4343 in 2′s2's complement representation is
Official PYQ1999Digital LogicNumber Representations (Fixed and Floating Point)MSQ · 1 mark
Zero has two representations in
Official PYQ1999Digital LogicNumber Representations (Fixed and Floating Point)MCQ · 1 mark
Booth's coding in 88 bits for the decimal number −57-57 is:
Official PYQ1998Digital LogicNumber Representations (Fixed and Floating Point)MCQ · 1 mark
Suppose the domain set of an attribute consists of signed four digit numbers. What is the percentage of reduction in storage space of this attribute if it is stored as an integer rather than in character form?
Official PYQ1998Digital LogicNumber Representations (Fixed and Floating Point)MCQ · 1 mark
The octal representation of an integer is (342)8(342)_8. If this were to be treated as an eight-bit integer in an 80858085 based computer, its decimal equivalent is