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Number System Related Interview/Test Questions

This document contains questions about binary, hexadecimal, floating point, and other computer number representations. It asks about topics like: - Why 1024 bits is considered 1 kilobit - Implementing NAND logic with resistors - IEEE single precision floating point format - Converting between number bases and representations like binary, octal, hexadecimal - Storing signed and unsigned integers in fixed widths - Floating point exponent and mantissa representations - Arithmetic operations on computer numbers

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Number System Related Interview/Test Questions

This document contains questions about binary, hexadecimal, floating point, and other computer number representations. It asks about topics like: - Why 1024 bits is considered 1 kilobit - Implementing NAND logic with resistors - IEEE single precision floating point format - Converting between number bases and representations like binary, octal, hexadecimal - Storing signed and unsigned integers in fixed widths - Floating point exponent and mantissa representations - Arithmetic operations on computer numbers

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1) what is the logic behind taking 1024bits as 1 K bit?

2) implement the NAND logic using a 5 V supply and 2 resistors


3) ieee single precision format for 1/5. form : 1 signbit, 8 bits for exponent,
23 bits for mantissa
4) Give Binary representation of -125.375 in fixed point 2C notation with 3
bits for fractional part and 8 bits for integer part.
5) Given a 4 bit binary number design a circuit that gives square of the
number.
6) A binary number is enormously large, so it is divided by a fixed number
and the remainder is used.What is this called and why it is called so????
7) consider a numeric system with base 20,which is a simple extension to
the hexadecimalsystem such that the letter A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I and J stand
for the decimal number 10,11,12,1,14,15,16,17,18and 19 respectively.
The value IA in above system is equivalent to :ans (c ) 562 in the octal
system.
8) If a signed integer is stored in a 8 bit memory element ,which of the
following is true/
ans (a) the minimum value of the integer possible is -128
9) assume the following convention for storing real numbers of size 10 bits
in mantissaexponent form:
Mantissa :6 MSB bits, stored in 2,s complement
Exponent:4 LSB ,stored in excess 4 form.
Under the above rule the decimal number corresponding to 1,110,11,0111
10)
in

given 6 bit mantissa in 2s complement form and 4 bit exponent is

excess-4 form in a floating point representation, find the number


ans -(something) * ( 2 to the power 3)
11)
in a machine a flating point number is represented
in 2's complement
mantissa 6 MSB
exponent 4 LSB(excess 4 form)
then 01101_0111(10 bits)
ans .656 * 2exp(-3)
12)
How many nibbles are there in 111001010100?
13)
in usual computer arthemetic, the value of the integer expression
22/5*2+8*2/6
ans:10
14)
An 8kb computer will bave addresses ----ans:8191
15)
an ASCII text file containing 500 characters will have size
approximately
ans:500bytes

16)

In BCD,the decimal number 516 is


ans:10101110
17)
The octal equivalant of hexa number 123 is
ans:443
18)
the 2's complement number of 110010 is
19)
'ABCDEFGHIJ' is a number.
A is the number of 0s.
B is the number of 1s etc
J is the number of 9s
What is the number?
20)
A 5 digit number is appended with 7(on right of units place) and
multiplied by 5 then the result is similar to intial no with 7 on the left
most digit (most significant digit). Find the 3rd digit in the initial number
ans = abcde7
*5
------------7abcde
Therefore, e=5, b=8, c=2
answer: c=2
21)
abcdefghij
a=no of zeros in the no
b= no of ones in the no
c= no of twos
so on
wht is the sum of digts
a.10
b.55
c.9
d.
ans 10
number is 6210001000
22)

Two binary numbers a and b its one's complement are


for a=0100
for b=1001
What is the decimal addition of a&b.?
23)
what is the representation in -2 box for 3 and -3 ? only 0 an 1 are
allowed.
24)
The max. value and min. value of 16-bit 2's complement (hex, dec,

binary)?
25)
The max.,min. value of 16-bit 1's complement (hex, dec, binary)?

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