Quiz submission record for quiz3-2-1 at Wed Jul  7 10:05:04 2004:

Your Answer for Question 1:
The fact that anything can be stored as data means that someone could access parts of memory that they would normally not be able to.  One way to prevent this would be to have something that checks all accesses to memory but this would slow down calculations.

Your Answer for Question 2:
A subnormal describes the unnormalized floating point numbers that fill in the space between 0 and the next normalized number.  We care about this format because it allows even more precision to be represented.

Your Answer for Question 3:
Doing this allows the programmer to use smaller values of x than 1.0-x would allow.

Your Answer for Question 4:
The strongest argument for adhering to the standard would be that the same convention is used in virtually all computers around the world.  This allows for easy portability between different computers.  The disadvantage would be that the current floating point standards have only a certain number of precision digits and could be a problem if more precision is required.


Your unique submission ID is quiz3-2-1-cs61c-ae-1089219904-1096.