Quiz submission record for quiz3-2-1 at Wed Jul  7 10:37:57 2004:

Your Answer for Question 1:
Other programs can pass instructions to the system when the system expects it to pass numbers or characters. Someone could use those instructions to damage the system. One possible technique is to check the data against any possibly damaging instructions, but it will make the system slower.

Your Answer for Question 2:
A subnormal has the same exponent as zero but a nonero significand. There allow a number to degrade in significance until it becomes 0, called fradual underflow.

Your Answer for Question 3:
Writing 1.0 - x may result in subnormals. 

Your Answer for Question 4:
The strongest argument for adhering is portibility. The strongest argument against adhering to the standard is that to implement it correctly demands extraordinarily competent ingenuity of design.


Your unique submission ID is quiz3-2-1-cs61c-ac-1089221877-3266.