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 largest denormalized value?

Group of answer choices

-1

-63

0

-62

63

B)

What is the value of the largest denormalized number?

Group of answer choices

13/256

255 * 2 ** -70

257/256

126/127

254/255

C)

What is the hexadecimal representation for negative infinity?

Group of answer choices

00FF

8000

FF00

3F01

013F