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Quiz 38

Regarding Reading 38.

1. For a digital computer, what determines the the number of discrete values you can represent?
2. What are some drawbacks to using fixed-point numbers?
3. In a 32-bit system, what is the meaning of the bits when using the IEEE single-precision floating point standard?
4. When using single-precision floating point numbers, explain why a program might yield 3.499999999999 instead of 3.50.
5. What is an FPU and what does it do?