Practice Problems for Wednesday, May 18

• Use geometric series to represent 3/5 as an infinite repeating binary fraction.
• Find the IEEE long precision floating point number x=fl(3/5) nearest to 3/5.
• Find the absolute roundoff error and relative roundoff error that result from using x=fl(3/5) to represent 3/5.

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