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Question 33Asked in UGC NET Computer Science, June 2016 (Paper II & III, Selected Questions)

The IEEE-754 double-precision format to represent floating point number, has a length of ________ bits.

  1. A16
  2. B32
  3. C48
  4. D64
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Correct answer: (D) 64

Explanation

Double precision floating point format occupies 8 bytes (64 bits) in computer memory: sign bit (1 bit), exponent (11 bits) and significand precision (53 bits, 52 explicitly stored).

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