Consider the following 16-bit floating point representation based on the IEEE floating point format:

There is a sign bit in the most significant bit.

The next seven bits are the exponent. The exponent bias is 63.

The last eight bits are the significand.

The rules are like those in the IEEE standard (normalized, denormalized, representation of 0, infinity, and NAN). As described in class, we consider the floating point format to encode numbers in a form:

(-1)^s * m * 2^E

where m is the mantissa and E is the exponent.

A)

What is the value of m for negative zero.

Group of answer choices

256

257

0

127

B)

What is the value of E for negative zero?

Group of answer choices

-62

63

62

-63

0

C)

What is the hexadecimal representation of the smallest value > 1?

Group of answer choices

FF00

013F

8000

00FF

3F01

D)

What is the value of m for the smallest value > 1?

Group of answer choices

257/256

255/256

127/128

257

256

E)

What is the value of E for the smallest value > 1?

Group of answer choices

62

-63

-62

0

63