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A binary, 8-bit floating point number 0111 0010 is said to have a 4-bit mantissa and a 4-bit exponent. What is meant by the terms 'mantissa' and 'exponent'? What is the value of this 8-bit binary floating point number?

Take an example 8-bit floating point number of 0111 0010.The 'mantissa' of this floating point number are the most significant bits -- in this case, the first 4 bits -- which represent the value and sign of ...
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Show how the decimal number -183 would be represented as an 8-bit two's complement arithmetic

For this question you should firstly lay out your placeholders for an 8 bit binary number, from 2^0 up to 2^7 (1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128). Then you find how 183 as a positive number would be represented in binary...
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Choose 3 types of malware, describe them and the ways in which they may harm a device.

Virus: This type of malware is able to self-replicate, it is deployed once the user opens its host files- possibly in the form of an E-mail attachment. Once opened the virus will become a memory resident, on...
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What are the benefits of using thin clients.

A thin client is a simple computer with basic hardware. In networking, these are used as access points for a user, using the resources of a central server.The simplicity of the hardware means that for many u...
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Write pseudocode for the binary search algorithm and state, with an explanation, it's worst case complexity in big-O notation

procedure binarySearch(A[], start, end, item): if start <= end: i = ceil((start + end) / 2) if A[i] = item: return i if A[i] > item: return binarySearch(A[], i + 1, end, item) if A[i] < item: return...
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