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Using the following floating-point representation:

  • s - one sign bit
  • m - mantissa - real number in range [1, 2), in which 1 and the comma are skipped, size of M bits
  • c - Exponent - natural number, size of C bits

in which the numer is calculated as: (-1)^sm2^c

We want to represent numbers from [-n, n] using this floating point representation, so that the maximum range of unrepresentable is 1. In other words: if numbers a,b are representable and there is no other representable numbers between them, then |b-a|<=1

What condition must numbers M and C meet (for a given n) for this condition to be true?

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