What is the base of a number system? А. the minimum number of digits needed to represent a number in that system

В. the place value of the leftmost digit in numbers written in that system

с. the place value of the rightmost digit in numbers written in that system

D. the number of symbols used to represent numbers in that system

Which statistical function in a spreadsheet you to see how far each number varies, on average, from the average value of the list?

When making changes to optimize part of a processor, it is often the case that speeding up one type of instruction comes at the cost of slowing down something else. for example, if we put in a complicated fast floating-point unit, that takes space, and something might have to be moved farther away from the middle to accommodate it, adding an extra cycle in delay to reach that unit. the basic amdahl's law equation does not take into account this trade-off. a. if the new fast floating-point unit speeds up floating-point operations by, on average, 2ă—, and floating-point operations take 20% of the original program's execution time, what is the overall speedup (ignoring the penalty to any other instructions)? b. now assume that speeding up the floating-point unit slowed down data cache accesses, resulting in a 1.5ă— slowdown (or 2/3 speedup). data cache accesses consume 10% of the execution time. what is the overall speedup now? c. after implementing the new floating-point operations, what percentage of execution time is spent on floating-point operations? what percentage is spent on data cache accesses?

Take a critical look at three gui applications you have used—for example, a spreadsheet, a word-processing program, and a game. describe how well each conforms to the gui design guidelines listed in this chapter.