CS 1500, Week 08 Notes

(Latest Revision: 10/22/2001)

Week 08 Notes for CS 1500 -- Fall 2001

Take roll.

Announcements

This week you are being asked for your input on the question of whether CSU Stanislaus should "get rid" of Winter Term and convert to a traditional "semester" calendar (which would also include summer sessions) Students are invited to provide input at three forum sessions:
- Tuesday, October 23rd from 10:00-11:00 (students only)
- Tuesday, October 23rd from 11:00-12:00 (open session)
- Wednesday, October 24th from 1:45-2:45 (open session)
All sessions will be held in "South Dining" -- adjacent to the main cafeteria in the Student Union Building.

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Lecture topic: Review Lab content

Lecture topic: Go over examples illustrating concepts in chapter 5 (see the week 07 notes)

Lecture topic: Discuss code example 5.13 and how the fact that conversion between binary and decimal representations introduces errors in the values of floating point numbers. Also, errors arise because a computer only has a finite number of bits to use to represent a number.

Lecture topic: Discuss code example 5.14 and how implicit conversion (coercion) works there.

Lecture topic: Discuss code example 5.15 and how explicit conversion (coercion) works there to "force" floating point division.

Lecture topic: Run example 5.17 to see the range of integers our Sun Ultra g++ compiler supports.