Assume that we will use a double-precision number for non-integer numbers (if you recall, this means a binary "scientific notation" with a
sign bit, 11 exponent bits using an excess-1024 representation, and a 53-bit mantissa of the form 1.--52 bits--.) What, precisely, is the largest number (decimal) we can represent? (This is half the "range.")
b)Assuming the same representation as the previous problem, how small would a number have to be in order for it to be indistinguishable from 0?