CSC103 Homework 1 2017

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--D. Thiebaut (talk) 20:14, 18 September 2017 (EDT)


The homework is on Moodle. This is just a list of the questions posted there.

Question 1
If you start counting in binary, 0, 1, 10, 11, etc, what is the binary number that will come right after 1011101?
Question 2
What is the binary number equal to the sum of 101110 plus 110110?
Question 3
What is the result of adding the following two binary numbers 11001 and 10110?
Question 4
Assume that you start counting in Base 5; 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 11, 12... What are the three logical numbers that follow 12?
Question 5
Our ice-cream fetching robot is at it again.
You instruct it to go to the local store and pick *all* the pints of ice cream or sorbet that it can find, that match the following boolean expression: "Pick all the pints that (contain vanilla) or (contain fruit and chocolate)"
The store contains the following number of pints of various kinds:
  • 1 pint of chocolate ice cream
  • 2 pints of vanilla swiss almond ice cream
  • 4 pints of vanilla raspberry swirl
  • 8 pints of chocolate raspberry ice cream
  • 16 pints of mango sorbet
  • 32 pints of vanilla-chocolate swirl
How many pints will the robot bring back to you?
Question 6
Who are are the three scientists who influenced the design of computer hardware the most?