title: Floating Point Number to Null-Terminated ASCII String
body: <p>I'm reviewing for an exam right now and one of the review questions gives an answer that I'm not understanding.</p>
  
  <p>A main memory location of a MIPS processor based computer contains the following bit pattern: </p>
  
  <p>0 01111110 11100000000000000000000 </p>
  
  <p>a. If this is to be interpreted as a NULL-terminated string of ASCII characters, what is the string?</p>
  
  <p>The answer that's given is "?p" but I'm not sure how they got that.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>