Computer Science: An Overview (13th Edition) (What's New in Computer Science)
Computer Science: An Overview (13th Edition) (What's New in Computer Science)
13th Edition
ISBN: 9780134875460
Author: Glenn Brookshear, Dennis Brylow
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 1.9, Problem 7QE

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Troubling phenomenon is stated below:

The troubling phenomenon which is common when encoding numeric information, images and sound as bit patterns is the approximations which are made.

  • This phenomenon is most serious in case of the numeric information because in these problems if any approximation is considered in starting step then the approximation is compounded at every step...

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