Answer to Question #4369 in MatLAB | Mathematica | MathCAD | Maple for Parth Parikh

Question

How many significant digits are there in each of the following numbers?
a) 702.10
b) 0.7021 x 103
c) 0.70210 x 105
d) 0.000913
e) 0.913 x 10-3
Express the above in the standard 8-bit floating point form (discussed in class) with a mantissa of 4 significant places.