Quiz submission record for quiz3-2-1 at Wed Jul  7 10:52:26 2004:

Your Answer for Question 1:
The fact that floats and integers are stored in the same registers causes a problem. Someone can crash a program trying to perform operations on the wrong data type. One technique preventing this is to seperate the registers and create a few more instructions to execute the program. The consequence is that a different set of data transfer instructions is needed to move data between the floating point registers and memory.

Your Answer for Question 2:
Subnormal numbers are tiny numbers between the smallest floating point and zero. We care about them because they represent the underflow threshold.	

Your Answer for Question 3:
Compensates for the lack of a guard digit.

Your Answer for Question 4:
For: widely implemented with a common format, requires minimum accuracy to one-half ulp in the least significant bit, and operations must be commutative.

Against: It is extremely difficult to implement the standard correctly, with a high attention to detail.


Your unique submission ID is quiz3-2-1-cs61c-ef-1089222746-1167.