Computer Science 433
Programming Languages

Fall 2014, The College of Saint Rose

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Agenda

• Guest lecture on recursion
• Announcements
  • Language project [HTML] [PDF] group formation (or notification that you plan to work alone) deadline today
  • Program/Problem Set 7: Names and Data Types [HTML] [PDF] continues
• Lecture 15 assignment recap
• More data types

Lecture 16 Assignment

Due at the start of class, Wednesday, October 29.

Please submit answers to these questions in Submission Box under "LA16" or in hard copy by the start of our next class. We will discuss these questions at the start of class, so no late submissions are accepted. Please be sure that your name is clearly indicated in all submissions.

• Give the IEEE 754 32-bit representation of the number 16.25. Do not worry about endianness. (3 points)

  Sign Bit	Exponent	Mantissa

• Give the BCD representation for the number 2615 in binary and in hexadecimal. (3 points)

Terminology

• floating point underflow
• bias
• complex data
• binary coded decimal
• enumerated type
• subrange type

Examples

• ccomplex
• enum
• hello_pascal
• pascal_subrange

Links

• Enum Types at Oracle's Java Tutorials