Answer from cs61c-ei (Jing Chen 16669246) for Question 4
The advantages of IEEE 754 are that it is a widespread standard with a common floating-point format, requiring minimum accuracy to one-half ulp in the least significant bit, and that the operations must be commutative. However, at the same time, during IEEE 754’s creation, some of the features did not balance language and compiler issues, such has humane exception handling and directed rounding. Such features, in my opinion, ought to be integrated in the next generation of math co-processors to get greater accuracy when dealing with floating-point arithmetic.