What is the Largest Negative Normalized Value in "decimal64" encoding?

Question

A teacher posed this question, along with a few others, in a lecture today and I was curious what the answer would be and the steps required to get the answer. Using the IEEE-754 Base-10 Double standard on a 64-bit system. To clarify, He said largest in value and smallest in magnitude as in closest to 0.

Thanks!

Answer 1

From the link to Wikipedia you gave:

The numbers −b^(1−emax) and b^(1−emax) ... are the smallest (in magnitude) normal numbers

In Decimal64, this is -10^(-383).