A hypothetical computer stores floating point numbers in 8-bit words. The first bit is used for the sign of the number, the second bit for the sign of the exponent, the next two bits for the magnitude of the exponent, and the remaining bits for the magnitude of the mantissa. The machine epsilon is most nearly 2^-6 2^-2 2^-8 2^-4 Non of the above
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In other words, it's the smallest representable positive number that can be distinguished from zero. In this hypothetical computer, the mantissa is represented by the last 4 bits. The smallest change that can be made to the mantissa is changing the least Show more…
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