Group of answer choices.
A. Rachel should look up how many bits are used to store integers and floating point numbers in the programming language she is using.
B. Rachel should reset her machine to store data using hexadecimal values instead of binary.
C. Rachel should run a program to ensure that she has enough memory on her machine to write the program itself.
D. Rachel does not have to worry about the size of the numbers
Answer:
A. Rachel should look up how many bits are used to store integers and floating point numbers in the programming language she is using.
Step-by-step explanation:
In Computer programming, a bit is a short word for the term binary digit and is primarily the basic (smallest) unit measurement of data or information.
A bit is a logical state which represents a single binary value of either one (1) or zero (0). This ultimately implies that, a single bit in computer science represents a boolean value of;
1. True or ON, which is equal to one (1).
2. False or OFF, which is equal to zero (0).
Additionally, a binary numbering represents all numeric values that are to be written in sequences of ones (1s) and zeroes (0s). Therefore, a binary number refers to any numerical value (number) that is expressed in base-2 numerical system; 0s and 1s.
Also, the total numbers which can be represented with an 8 bit binary (base-2) system is 256.
For all computations that would involve the use of very large numbers, it's important to look up how many bits are used to store integers and floating point numbers.
In this context, Rachel should ensure that she check how many bits the chosen high-level programming language uses to store integers and floating point numbers before writing her codes.