Assignment 6

This assignment is worth 10 points.

Objectives

• When you finish this assignment you should be able to
  • Describe the int and float data types.
  • Identify the operations associated with int and float data types.
  • Describe coercion and type casting.

1. Read chapter 3, Don't worry about 3.8 as we will be covering that later.
2. Define the following:
   1. Coercion
   2. Type Casting
   3. Numeric Overflow
   4. Round Off Error
3. What is the result of running the following code? Why does the result occur?

   1. int a;
      float b = 4.9;
      
      a = b;
             

   2. float a;
      
      a = 4/5;
             

   3. int a=015;
      cout < < a << endl;
             

4. How can a floating point number be converted to an integer with rounding?
5. What happens when the stream insertion operator is used to read
   1. An integer?
   2. A floating point number?