Assuming IEEE 754 single precision format we learnt in the class, what decimal number the hexadecimal bit pattern 0C000000 will represent? You need to first convert the hexadecimal number to its binary representation, and then find out the exponent and the significand using the IEEE format. Show all steps.

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Assuming IEEE 754 single precision format we learnt in the class, what decimal number the hexadecimal bit pattern 0C000000 will represent? You need to first convert the hexadecimal number to its binary representation, and then find out the exponent and the significand using the IEEE format. Show all steps. 

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