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Answer:

No. Remember from the last chapter that 0.1 can't be represented precisely in binary. Using floating point representation does not change anything. It does not matter that the number is negative.


-0.1

But let us proceed to see how -0.1 is (imprecisely) represented.


Here are the bits written out:


+-exponentMantissa
1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0

QUESTION 20:

Write out the bit pattern as hexadecimal.


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