Data Types (OCR A Level Computer Science)

Exam Questions

10 mins4 questions
11 mark

Convert the denary number 189 to hexadecimal.

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21 mark

Convert the unsigned binary number 1010101111 to hexadecimal.

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13 marks

The normalised floating point binary number 0100 1110 is stored using 4 bits for the mantissa and 4 bits for the exponent, both in two’s complement.

Convert this number to denary.

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25 marks

Show how the denary value −9.125 can be represented in normalised floating point format, using 8 bits for the mantissa and 4 bits for the exponent, both in two’s complement.

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