Question

A floating point number is said to be normalized if the most significant digit of the mantissa is?

• A. Zero
• B. Non-zero
• C. Negative
• D. Positive

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

Non-zero

The mantissa of a floating point number is expressed as binary number. A normalized mantissa has its binary point just to the left of the most significant non-zero digit.

Example:- 13.25

Binary number is 1101

The mantissa is a part of a number in scientific notation or a floating point number consisting of significant digits.