I need an example.
01101011.
Knowing our mantissa we know where our decimal goes:
.1011
By our exponent we turn it into 010 from our original number (110). By this number we have that we move the decimal positive 2 to the right.
My question is why is it "positive"?
Thus our answer would be 10.11 which represents 2 and 3/4ths.
10111100
Knowing our mantissa we know where our decimal goes:
.1100
By our exponent we turn it into 101 from our original number (011). By this number we have that we move the decimal negative 1 to the left.
My question is how does 101 represent the value (-1)
I can understand the first exponent representing 2 because 010 is 2.
But I can't understand the second exponent where 101 becomes negative one when to me it looks like a positive 5.
Can someone help me here?
