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    STAT 740 - Spring 2004 - Homework 1: Accov - For

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    The document provides instructions for 6 homework problems related to statistics and computer programming. Problem 1 asks students to modify an existing program to force integer input and change the quit option. Problem 2 asks students to write a program to calculate multiplications and observe how integer overflow is handled. Problem 3 asks students to identify the largest and smallest possible values for an integer variable using 2's complement notation. Problems 4 and 5 involve representing values in IEEE single precision floating point format. Problem 6 asks how to add a long list of numbers to minimize rounding error without just ordering by magnitude.

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    The document provides instructions for 6 homework problems related to statistics and computer programming. Problem 1 asks students to modify an existing program to force integer input and change the quit option. Problem 2 asks students to write a program to calculate multiplications and observe how integer overflow is handled. Problem 3 asks students to identify the largest and smallest possible values for an integer variable using 2's complement notation. Problems 4 and 5 involve representing values in IEEE single precision floating point format. Problem 6 asks how to add a long list of numbers to minimize rounding error without just ordering by magnitude.

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    The document provides instructions for 6 homework problems related to statistics and computer programming. Problem 1 asks students to modify an existing program to force integer input and change the quit option. Problem 2 asks students to write a program to calculate multiplications and observe how integer overflow is handled. Problem 3 asks students to identify the largest and smallest possible values for an integer variable using 2's complement notation. Problems 4 and 5 involve representing values in IEEE single precision floating point format. Problem 6 asks how to add a long list of numbers to minimize rounding error without just ordering by magnitude.

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    STAT 740 - Spring 2004 - Homework 1: Accov - For

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    The document provides instructions for 6 homework problems related to statistics and computer programming. Problem 1 asks students to modify an existing program to force integer input and change the quit option. Problem 2 asks students to write a program to calculate multiplications and observe how integer overflow is handled. Problem 3 asks students to identify the largest and smallest possible values for an integer variable using 2's complement notation. Problems 4 and 5 involve representing values in IEEE single precision floating point format. Problem 6 asks how to add a long list of numbers to minimize rounding error without just ordering by magnitude.

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    STAT 740 - Spring 2004 - Homework 1

    Due: Friday, January 30th

    Note: Problems 1 and 2 require computer code. A hardcopy is not needed. Please e-mail me the
    (uncompiled) code so that I can compile and run it to verify that it works. Neither of these two
    programs involve issues of efficiency, nor do they require additional comment lines except for
    the date of last modification and your name.

    1) The accov.for program we’ve seen in class does not currently force the user to enter an
    integer when asked for the item numbers. Because of this the program could be caused to crash
    by entering a non-integer or by entering an integer with a too-large or too-small value. A
    subroutine called chartoint is available on the course web-page (currently demonstrated
    inside of another program). This subroutine is designed to ask the user to enter a non-negative
    integer value in a specified range, and then to force them to do it.

    For this problem, include this subroutine in accov.for and modify the program to use the
    subroutine. Note that you should also change the 999 to quit option to a more logical non-
    negative integer choice as well.

    2) We saw in class what happens to the INTEGER*1 format when values are accumulated one at a
    time (e.g. 127+1=-128). How does the computer deal with cases of multiplication though?
    Write a program to calculate 64x2, 64x3, 64x4, 64x5, 65x2, 65x3, 65x4, and 65x5 and store the
    values in the integer*1 format and then print them out. Can you tell how it seems to be
    handling the multiplication? (Binary work is not required.)

    3) Imagine we were working with an INTEGER*3 variable using two’s complement notation.
    What would the largest (most positive) and smallest (most negative) values representable by this
    notation be? Give the numbers and their representations.

    4) Represent 3 and 1/16 in IEEE single precision floating point representation like we used in
    class.

    5) Determine the value of the largest number representable in IEEE single precision floating
    point by calculating the decimal value corresponding to:
    S=0 E=11111110 F=11111111111111111111111
    You can report in scientific notation with at least four decimal places instead of carrying it all the
    way out.

    6) Imagine that you want to add a list of several thousand real numbers of various magnitudes
    together. In what order would you add them together to guarantee that you would get the
    smallest rounding error possible? Give a brief example using a short list of numbers. (Note:
    No programming needed, and the answer isn’t just to add them from smallest to biggest!)

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