Microprocessors - Engineering

Q1:

Consider the following statements
  1. The sign of a floating point number depends on the sign of mantissa only.
  2. If the absolute value of a number is less than 1, the sign of exponent is zero or positive.
  3. With sign bit of mantissa as 0, increasing the exponent from a positive to a more positive value gives a larger floating point number.
Which of the above are correct?

A All

B 1 and 2 only

C 1 and 3 only

D 2 and 3 only

ANS:C - 1 and 3 only

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