​ASCII is a 7-bit format because most computers and peripheral devices transmit data in bytes and because parity checking was used widely in the 1960s to 1980s for detecting transmission errors.

____ is a philosophy of processor design that deliberately includes complex instructions.

The PC revolution wouldn’t have been possible without standardized microprocessors.

Traditional bus interfaces are too slow and power hungry to provide sufficient data transfer capacity between many processors or between processors and primary storage.

The representation format for each data type balances compactness, range, accuracy, ease of manipulation, and standardization.

The fractional portion of a real number is represented by digits to the right of the ____.

Complex instructions are a tradeoff between processor complexity and program simplicity.

Binary numbers are well suited to computer processing because they correspond directly with values in ____ logic.

Binary addition works with complex data types, such as floating-point and double-precision numbers.

Several transistors and their interconnections on a single chip form a(n) ____.