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  • Question
  • What will you do to treat the constant 3.14 as a float?


  • Options
  • A. use float(3.14f)
  • B. use 3.14f
  • C. use f(3.14)
  • D. use (f)(3.14)

  • Correct Answer
  • use 3.14f 

    Explanation
    Given 3.14 is a double constant.
    To specify 3.14 as float, we have to add f to the 3.14. (i.e 3.14f)

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    • 1. What will you do to treat the constant 3.14 as a long double?

    • Options
    • A. use 3.14LD
    • B. use 3.14L
    • C. use 3.14DL
    • D. use 3.14LF
    • Discuss
    • 2. If the binary eauivalent of 5.375 in normalised form is 0100 0000 1010 1100 0000 0000 0000 0000, what will be the output of the program (on intel machine)?
      #include<stdio.h>
      #include<math.h>
      int main()
      {
          float a=5.375;
          char *p;
          int i;
          p = (char*)&a;
          for(i=0; i<=3; i++)
              printf("%02x\n", (unsigned char)p[i]);
          return 0;
      }
      

    • Options
    • A. 40 AC 00 00
    • B. 04 CA 00 00
    • C. 00 00 AC 40
    • D. 00 00 CA 04
    • Discuss
    • 3. Does there any function exist to convert the int or float to a string?

    • Options
    • A. Yes
    • B. No
    • Discuss
    • 4. What will the function randomize() do in Turbo C under DOS?

    • Options
    • A. returns a random number.
    • B. returns a random number generator in the specified range.
    • C. returns a random number generator with a random value based on time.
    • D. return a random number with a given seed value.
    • Discuss
    • 5. What is the purpose of fflush() function.

    • Options
    • A. flushes all streams and specified streams.
    • B. flushes only specified stream.
    • C. flushes input/output buffer.
    • D. flushes file buffer.
    • Discuss
    • 6. The binary equivalent of 5.375 is

    • Options
    • A. 101.101110111
    • B. 101.011
    • C. 101011
    • D. None of above
    • Discuss
    • 7. We want to round off x, a float, to an int value, The correct way to do is

    • Options
    • A. y = (int)(x + 0.5)
    • B. y = int(x + 0.5)
    • C. y = (int)x + 0.5
    • D. y = (int)((int)x + 0.5)
    • Discuss
    • 8. Which of the following statement obtains the remainder on dividing 5.5 by 1.3?

    • Options
    • A. rem = (5.5 % 1.3)
    • B. rem = modf(5.5, 1.3)
    • C. rem = fmod(5.5, 1.3)
    • D. Error: we can't divide
    • Discuss
    • 9. Which of the following range is a valid long double (Turbo C in 16 bit DOS OS)?

    • Options
    • A. 3.4E-4932 to 1.1E+4932
    • B. 3.4E-4932 to 3.4E+4932
    • C. 1.1E-4932 to 1.1E+4932
    • D. 1.7E-4932 to 1.7E+4932
    • Discuss
    • 10. A float occupies 4 bytes. If the hexadecimal equivalent of these 4 bytes are A, B, C and D, then when this float is stored in memory in which of the following order do these bytes gets stored?

    • Options
    • A. ABCD
    • B. DCBA
    • C. 0xABCD
    • D. Depends on big endian or little endian architecture
    • Discuss


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