How are numbers represented inside a computer

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1. What is the difference between 12 and "12"?

2. How are numbers represented inside a computer?

3. How are floating point numbers represented in a computer?

4. Translate the following decimal numbers into binary (show working not just only answers)

Decimal	Binary
2
10
20
50
Your age (only integer)

5. Translate the following binary numbers into octal then hex (show working not just only answers)

Binary	Octal	Hex
1010
11010
1111
11111111
10000000

6. What is the difference between computer memory and computer hard drives? (there are several, hint, think of speed, size, lifetime)

7. In Week 4 you will be given practical exercises about Little Man Computer. The Little Man Computer (LMC) is a simulator of a CPU, developed by Dr Stuart Madnick at M.I.T in 1965 to illustrate how the Fetch Execute Cycle executes instructions at the Assembler level in a Von Neumann architecture CPU, which has all of the basic features of a modern computer. Write a brief description of who Von Neumann was and what he did in microprocessor research.

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