4. (20 points) The IEEE single precision floating point standard uses an 8-bit exponent (with a bias of 127) and a 23-bi
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4. (20 points) The IEEE single precision floating point standard uses an 8-bit exponent (with a bias of 127) and a 23-bit mantissa. (a) Convert decimal number -3.0E-1 into the IEEE format. (b) What is the gap between the number you obtained in part (a) and its nearest neighbor greater than it?