How might you represent a floating point number in terms of bytes?

Do a search on the Web for floating point" and see what you find.


Floating point numbers store the sign bit, the mantissa, and the exponent.

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The DSS makes use of the Secure Hash Algorithm and presents a new digital signature technique known as the ______________ .

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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Extend the class diagram of Exercise 2–6 to include the following attributes:

• a book includes a publisher, publication date, and an ISBN
• a part includes a title and a number
• a chapter includes a title, a number, and an abstract
• a section includes a title and a number

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WEP ____ are software applications that are used to decrypt WEP keys.

A. loggers B. sniffers C. crackers D. jumpers

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A(n) ____ is any combination of constants, variables, and function calls that can be evaluated to yield a result.

a. expression b. identifier c. class d. object

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