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Transcribed Image Text:In single precision (IEEE-754 standard), 8 bits are used for storing the exponent (the
bias is 127), and 23 bits are used for storing the mantissa.
(a) What are the smallest and the largest positive numbers that can be stored in single
precision?
(b) What is the smallest value of the mantissa that can be stored?
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