What Is the Largest Value That Can Be Represented in a Floating-Point

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Short Answer

What is the largest value that can be represented in a floating-point system in which each value is encoded by a byte whose most significant bit is the sign bit,the next three bits represent the exponent field in excess notation,and the last four bits represent the mantissa?
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