Problem
Convert the following decimal numbers to IEEE single-precision floating-point numbers. Report the results as hexadecimal values. You need not extend the calculation of the significand value beyond its most significant 8 bits.
a. -65
b. 7.3125
c. 0.8
d. 0.000083
e. 72,000,831
f. -42.16
g. 6.02 x 1023.