Q9

Consider the following $32\text{-bit}$ floating-point representation scheme as shown in the format below. A value is specified by $3$ fields, a one bit sign field (with $0$ for positive and $1$ for negative values), a $24 \;\text{bit}$ fraction field (with the binary point is at the left end of the fraction bits), and a $7\;\text{bit}$ exponent field (in $\text{excess-}64$ signed integer representation, with $16$ is the base of exponentiation). The sign bit is the most significant bit.