Consider an 8-bit IEEE-style floating point number with 4 bits of exponent and 3 bits of fraction.

(a) What bias is used to represent the exponent?

(b) What are the largest and smallest positive normalized numbers that can be represented in this format?

c) What are example hexadecimal representations of +0, -Infinity, and +NaN in this format?

d) What is the decimal value of the bit pattern 0xce