Numerical Analysis Assignment 1 — IEEE Arithmetic
 Question #1
Determine the maximum and minimum number that can be stored in:
 (a) A 5-byte unsigned integer (b) A 5-byte signed integer
 08.20.16
 Question #2
Consider a real number stored with 5 bytes. Bit #1 is reserved for the sign, while bits #2 to #10 are reserved for the biased exponent, and bits #11 to #40 are related to the significand. Do the following:
 (a) Find the minimum and maximum possible exponent $p$ (b) Find the smallest possible positive number (c) Find the largest possible number (d) Find the smallest possible positive subnormal number
 08.29.16
 Question #3
Consider a real number stored with 6 bytes. Bit #1 is reserved for the sign, while bits #2 to #13 are reserved for the biased exponent, and bits #14 to #48 are related to the significand. Find the machine precision $\epsilon_{\rm mach}$.
 Question #4
Say that $$x=-g + \sqrt{g^2+1}$$ Say that both $x$ and $g$ are stored in memory using single precision numbers with a relative error due to machine accuracy of $\epsilon_{\rm mach}=2\times 10^{-10}$. Do the following:
 (a) Find the relative error on $x$ given $g=1000.0$ (b) Recast the equation for $x$ in difference form to reduce its relative error (c) Find the relative error on $x$ given $g=1000.0$ for the recast equation outlined in (b)
 08.30.16
 Question #5
It is desired to minimize the number of bits that can store a certain range of numbers. The range lower limit is $3\times 10^{-65}$, and the range upper limit is $10^{32}$. Find the number of bits needed to store the exponent and the significand. Then find the total number of bits needed.
 09.13.17
 2 255, $-254$, $3.454\times 10^{-77}$, $1.15792089 \times 10^{77}$, $3.217\times 10^{-86}$.
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