Quiz submission record for quiz3-2-1 at Wed Jul  7 10:46:08 2004:

Your Answer for Question 1:
If something is declared as an integer and a float number is inputted and the error exception is not caught or checked, the computer program may do something unexpected

Your Answer for Question 2:
Subnormals are important because they allow extra precision for floating point numbers.

Your Answer for Question 3:
Because the way floating point digits were represented were by base 2 digits and they did not want to take anything to the base 0.  so .5 is really 2 to the base -1

Your Answer for Question 4:
By following the standards new innocation would not occur.  The current problem with the current co-processors is that not every use of them can be used most efficiently by everybody, such as the compiler-writers.  But then again it would take tedious time to recode such complex code


Your unique submission ID is quiz3-2-1-cs61c-eo-1089222368-695.