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Questions
1. Research the architecture of a RISC processor and compare and contrast it with the Intel Core and Itanium processor families.
2. Answer the following below
1. What are the binary, octal, and hexadecimal representations of the decimal number 10?
2. Why is binary data representation and signaling the preferred method of computer hardware implementation?
3. What is excess notation? What are two complement notations? Why are they needed? In other words, why can't integer values be represented by ordinary binary numbers?
4. What is the numeric range of a 16-bit twos complement value? A 16-bit excess notation value? A 16-bit unsigned binary value?
5. What is overflow? What is underflow? How can the probability of their occurrence be minimized?
6. Why are real numbers more difficult to represent and process than integers?
7. Why might a programmer choose to represent a data item in IEEE binary128 floating-point format instead of IEEE binary64 floating-point format? What additional costs might be in- curred at runtime (when the application program executes) as a result of using the 128-bit instead of the 64-bit format?
8. Why doesn't a CPU evaluate the expression 'A' 5 'a' as true?
9. What are the differences between ASCII and Unicode?
10. What primitive data types can normally be represented and processed by a CPU?
11. What is a data structure? List several types of common data structures.
12. What is an address? What is a pointer? What purpose are they used for?
13. How is an array stored in the main memory? How is a linked list stored in the main memory? What are their comparative advantages and disadvantages? Give examples of data that would be best stored as an array and as a linked list.
14. How does a class differ from other data structures?