A) To replace all floating-point numbers in memory
B) To represent non-repeating decimal fractions without rounding
C) To store only integer values
D) To increase the speed of binary calculations

A) They use a base-10 exponent exclusively
B) They do not support non-repeating fractions
C) They restrict the denominator to a power of two
D) They have too many bits for simple fractions

A) It results in an error
B) It may evaluate to false due to inexactness
C) It always equals 0.7000000000000001
D) It is always true

A) Binary networking protocols
B) Hardware interrupt handling
C) Low-level machine instruction sets
D) Currency

A) Only as a floating-point number
B) As an array of characters
C) As either a floating-point or fixed-point number
D) Only as a fixed-point number

A) The denominator is always a power of two
B) The exponent varies
C) The denominator is set to a fixed power of ten
D) It is always less precise than floating-point

A) A variable exponent represents the power of ten
B) A restricted exponent range of 0 to 10
C) A fixed denominator
D) No mantissa

A) From a hex code
B) From a string
C) From two integers
D) From a single floating-point number

A) IEEE 754
B) ANSI C
C) Unicode Standard
D) ISO/IEC 9899

A) Decimal32
B) Decimal16
C) Decimal256
D) Decimal8

A) 32 bits
B) 256 bits
C) 128 bits
D) 64 bits

A) num.Decimal
B) math.Fixed
C) python.Float
D) decimal.Decimal

A) RationalNum
B) Float64
C) DecimalNumber
D) BigDecimal

A) java.decimal.Decimal
B) java.math.DecimalNumber
C) java.core.Fixed
D) java.math.BigDecimal

A) 64 digits
B) 28 digits
C) 38 digits
D) 128 digits

A) fixed-point decimal
B) decimal128
C) decimal64
D) decimal32

A) C and C++
B) Python
C) Ruby
D) Java

A) ±0.001 to ±1000
B) ±1.0 × 10−28 to ±7.9228 × 1028
C) ±2³² to ±2⁶⁴
D) ±1.0 × 10−128 to ±1.0 × 10127

A) Python
B) PL/I
C) Ruby
D) C#

A) -128 to 127
B) -28 to 28
C) 0 to 38
D) -64 to 64