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A2 Q2 (b) - Two digit mantissa?

When part (b) asks for “two-decimals floating point arithmetic”, does this mean using a two-digit mantissa, or rounding each step to two decimal points (i.e. 10^-2)?

Two-digit mantissa. We (and our computers) are using floating-point arithmetic.

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