Consider a computer system that stores a floating-point numbers with 16-bit mantissa and an 8-bit exponent, each in two’s complement. The smallest and largest positive values which can be stored are
(A) 1 × 10 ^-128and 2¹⁵× 10¹⁵
(B) 1 × 10 ^-256and 2¹⁵× 10²⁵⁵
(C) 1 × 10 ^-128and 2¹⁵× 10¹²⁷
(D) 1 × 10 ^-128and 2¹⁵– 1 × 10¹²⁷


Answer: (D)

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