Exercises : Answer the following Question

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To help solidify your understanding of this hour's lesson, you are encouraged to answer the quiz questions and finish the exercises provided in the Workshop before you move to the next lesson. The answers and hints to the questions and exercises are given in Appendix E, "Answers to Questions and Exercises."

    Given an int variable x and an unsigned int variable y, as well as x = 0x8765 and y = 0x8765, is x equal to y?
    Given that the int data type is 16 bits long, what is the hex format of the decimal number -23456?
    Which format specifier, %ld or %lu, should be used to specify an unsigned long int variable?
    What is the name of the header file you have to include if you're calling some C math functions from your C program?

Exercises

Given the following statements,
    int x;
    unsigned int y;
    x = 0xAB78;
    y = 0xAB78;
write a program to display the decimal values of x and y on the screen.
   

Write a program to measure the sizes of short int, long int, and long double on your machine.
   

Give the binary representations of the following:
        512
        -1
        128
        -128

Write a program to display the decimal value given in quiz question 2 in the hex format. Does the result from the program match your answer to that question?


Given an angle of 30 degrees, write a program to calculate its sine and tangent values.
Write a program to calculate the non-negative square root of 0x19A1.

 

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Exercises : Answer the following Question

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