Let's say there is a floating-point code that fit in 16 bits, with 1 bit for the sign and 4 bits for the exponent and the rest (11) for the significad. I've been able to find the range of normalized exponent, which I believe is [-6,7], by calculating 1-bias and 2^(k-1) - 1. However, I'm having trouble finding these:
The median value of the code, the range of positive denormalized values, the range of positive normalized values, the median of the positive normalized values and the median of the positive values.
How can I calculate these? I'm not sure how to approach it.