Question

What are the most positive and the most negative decimal numbers that can be represented by a 2C (n+k) bit fixed-point number, where n is the number of integer bits (including the sign bit) and k is the number of fractional bits?

Answer 1

Answer:

The most positive is 3

The most negative is -4

Explanation:

The most positive integer of a number is the smallest positive outcome of such number after simplifying it.

The most negative is the opposite of most positive. Here, the result is negative after simplifying a given function.

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