NOTE: This submission was received late. The deadline was Wed Jul  7 11:00:00 2004 but the submission was not received until Wed Jul  7 11:00:41 2004. We will grade the last on-time submission for this quiz.

Your Answer for Question 1:
One can find out someone's bank account password if he tries out different inputs for a enough amount of time (since passwords are all in numbers). Also, when transferring data, an evil hacker can eavesdrop the important and confidential information. In order to prevent this, we can encrypt the data in transferring them with complicated functions and algorithms. But this reduces the speed of data transfer greatly.

Your Answer for Question 2:
Not having the leading zero in floating point number representation so that we can get closer to zero.

Your Answer for Question 3:
Don't know.

Your Answer for Question 4:
The advantage is that since it is stardardized, my hardware will work universally anywhere (compatibility). But if I am concerned about a very specific and specialized operation or newer and better technology in which the stardard conventions are inappropriate, then we ought to renounce adhering to the stardards. 


Your unique submission ID is quiz3-2-1-cs61c-ew-1089223241-1072.