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 E for the smallest value > 1?

Group of answer choices

62

-63

-62

0

63

B)

What is the value of the smallest value > 1?

Group of answer choices

13/256

257/256

126/127

256/255

255 X 2 ** -70

C)

What is the hexadecimal representation of the largest denormalized value?

Group of answer choices

3F01

013F

FF00

8000

00FF

D)

What is the value of m for the largest denormalized value?

Group of answer choices

255/256

127/128

254/255

126/127

257/256