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CAPE Computer Science Unit 1 · 2012 · Paper 2 · Question 1(c)(ii)

Consider a floating point representation with a 1-bit sign, 3-bit exponent, and 5-bit mantissa. Calculate the decimal equivalent of 101100011.

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