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Computer Science

by Ian Sinclair
May 2014
Beginner content levelBeginner
186 pages
9h
English
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Computer Science
array, the array must consist of numbers only, and names or symbols cannot
be stored. If you wanted to store a telephone number in a number array, for
example, you could not store it in the form 01-55504-71615 because the
hyphen (-) is not a digit. In addition, because of the way that a number is
coded and stored, you might find that the telephone number was read out of
the memory as -127118 (if you were lucky) or even as 1.271E5, meaning
127100. Number coding is intended to make it easy for the machine to carry
out arithmetic, and if your numbers are not for this purpose (like telephone
numbers, address numbers, departmenta ...
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