Difference between revisions of "CSC103 Take-Home Exam 2013"
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Pick '''three''' different aspect of the language ''Processing'' that are connected in some way to assembly language, and explain in a paragraph for each how the construct or concept you selected is related to the way one writes assembly language programs, or how the processor and the memory interact. | Pick '''three''' different aspect of the language ''Processing'' that are connected in some way to assembly language, and explain in a paragraph for each how the construct or concept you selected is related to the way one writes assembly language programs, or how the processor and the memory interact. | ||
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+ | Assume that we have two boolean functions ''f<sub>1</sub>'' and ''f<sub>2</sub>'' of three boolean variables ''a'', ''b'', and ''c'': | ||
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+ | :::''f<sub>1</sub>'' = ( b and (not c) ) or ( a and b ) or ( a and c ) | ||
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+ | :::''f<sub>2</sub>'' = ( b and (not c) ) or ( a and c ) | ||
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+ | Show that no matter what values ''a'', ''b'' and ''c'' take, ''f<sub>1</sub>'' is always equal to ''f<sub>2</sub>''. | ||
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=Problem 2= | =Problem 2= | ||
You are at a dinner party where one of the guests who is already on his third martini is trying to impress a young colleague. This inebriated guest at some point makes this statement. "Oh, yes, that guy at MIT, Ray Kurtzweil, he's big on exponential growth! He's the one who's been telling the whole world that the performance of processors and of memory are growing exponentially, and that one is definitely growing faster than the other, so we're bound to have a shift in technology very soon..." | You are at a dinner party where one of the guests who is already on his third martini is trying to impress a young colleague. This inebriated guest at some point makes this statement. "Oh, yes, that guy at MIT, Ray Kurtzweil, he's big on exponential growth! He's the one who's been telling the whole world that the performance of processors and of memory are growing exponentially, and that one is definitely growing faster than the other, so we're bound to have a shift in technology very soon..." | ||
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What do you say? | What do you say? | ||
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Revision as of 09:36, 7 October 2013
--D. Thiebaut (talk) 10:06, 25 September 2013 (EDT)
This exam will be a one-week take-home exam and will be released on 10/10/13. Please stay tuned!