Exam 3: Data Representation

The address of an array element can be calculated with the starting address of the array and the element's ____.

A string of eight bits is called a(n) ____________________.

The multiplier that describes the difference between one position and the next is the ____ of the numbering system.

A(n) ____ is a data structure that uses pointers so that list elements can be scattered among nonsequential storage locations.

In the binary32 format, the leading sign bit applies to the exponent, not the mantissa.

A segmented memory model has primary storage is divided into equal-sized (for example, 64 KB) segments called ____________________.

To avoid overflow and increase accuracy, some computers and programming languages define additional numeric data types called long-precision data formats.

Numbers such as 1/3 are stored in floating-point format by ____.

____ occurs when the absolute value of a computational result contains too many bits to fit into a fixed-width data format.

A sequence of records on secondary storage is called a ____.

A(n) ____ is a set of related data values.

A(n) ____ can contain both whole and fractional components.

A group of bits that describe a single data value is called a(n) ____________________.

In their written form, English and many other languages use alphabetic letters, numerals, punctuation marks, and a variety of other special-purpose symbols known as ____.

​In a ____, each digit can have only one of two possible values: 0 or 1.

​____ is a character-coding method developed by IBM in the 1960s and used in all IBM mainframes well into the 2000s.

​Each element of a doubly linked list has two pointers: one pointing to the next element in the list and one pointing to the top element in the list.

Large numeric values expressed in octal notation are one-third the length of corresponding ____ notation.

The data types a CPU supports are sometimes called ____ data types.

Before Unicode, devices designed for character I/O used ASCII by default and vendor-specific methods or older ISO standards to process character sets other than Latin-1.