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Floating point representation of 100.5

To represent the binary number 100.5, its binary form 1100100.1 can be written in IEEE
standard form (-1)s * M * 2E as

                (-1)0 * 1.1001001 * 26

So s = 0, E = 6, and M = 1.1001001




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