Overflow and Representing Text Review

Computing devices use patterns of bits to represent complex information

Abstraction helps represent complex information by surfacing complexity that might otherwise be hidden

Depending on context the same sequence of bits may represent different types of information

Common abstractions that are represented by computing devices include numbers, characters, and color.

Yes because you are taking a something complex and making it simple

No. Abstraction is when you make something more complex

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Using a fixed but large number of bits can eliminate the possibility of round off error when representing numbers in binary

With a fixed number of bits some numbers are too large to represent in a computer which will lead to overflow errors.

Using a fixed but large number of bits, for example 128, eliminates the possibility of overflow errors.

With a large but fixed number of bits it is possible to eliminate either round-off errors or overflow errors, but not both.