Assume we have a floating point number system with base significant digits, minimum exponent emin and maximum exponent emax. A nonnegative number is either zero or of the form 12pe Develop a formula...

Assume we have a floating point number system with base

significant digits, minimum exponent emin and maximum exponent emax. A nonnegative number is either zero or of the form

<sub>1

2

p</sub>

^e

Develop a formula for the number of nonnegative floating point values.