Q85-b

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 $1$ preceding the binary (radix) point. Assume that only $0’s$ are padded in while shifting a field. The normalized representation of the above number $(0.239 \times 2^{13})$ is: $0A\;20$ $11\;34$ $49\;D0$ $4A\;E8$