The decimal numbers represented in the computer are called as floating point numbers, as the decimal point floats through the number.

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• The numbers written to the power of 10 in the representation of decimal numbers are called as            
• The floating point numbers are stored in general purpose register in IA-32.
• If the decimal point is placed to the right of the first significant digit, then the number is called                   
• The 32 bit representation of the decimal number is called as
•                   constitute the representation of the floating number.
• The size of the floating registers can be extended upto                     
• If we want to perform memory or arithmetic operations on data in Hexa- decimal mode then we use                      symbol before the operand.
• When using the Big Endian assignment to store a number, the sign bit of the number is stored in            
•               are numbers and encoded characters, generally used as operands.
• Which method/s of representation of numbers occupies a large amount of memory than others?