CS 200 - Assignment #1
This assignment is due (hard copy, do not email) at the begining of class on 10/1.
- Part 1
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Prove that/Demonstrate how repeated division by 5 will convert an
arbitrary decimal number into its pentimal representation.
- Part 2
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Explain why hexadecimal and octal are used to express binary values.
I.e. "Why not just use the raw binary values?" and
"Why not base-6 or base-9?"
- Part 3
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Rafiquzzaman, Chapter 2
Problems: 2.1-2.26
note: for question 2.8 compute the binary equivalent so that total error < .01
for question 2.10 read the directions as: "Give the bit encodings for the
following BCD numbers"