Fao Of Spathyphylum.....

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simple IT quiz, you have 15mins and you can use google if you like. An IT operative that I would hire should know them within 2 minutes.
1) Why is hexadecimal used in computing?
2) what is a slack nibble?
3) What is a high level language?
4) what is virtual memory?
5) what does the acronym B.A.S.I.C. stand for?
6) what is the smallest and largest number (express in decimal) that can be stored in a signed half word ?
7) what word does the EBCDIC code D7D3D6D5E2C5D9 represent?
8) what does A.S.C.I.I. stand for?
9) what is floating point?
10) What is the meaning of the portmanteau “FORTRAN”>

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PP: this was for spathy but feel free to have a go
what ?
we are meant to tell you
when you know the answers ?
as free tee might say - - foo dat! yeah !!

"1) to do with 256 bits which is FF in HD"
explained by canary
"3) heavily interpreted - far away from machine code
Basic All symbolic insstruction code" - high level language is any language that turns source code into 1 or more object code instructions, eg basic, pascal, cobol, algol etc. A low level language is ammebly language that tuns each symbolic instruction into an object code instruction.
"ASCII is like Basic but different words" - answered correctly by spath
"Flop is a way of storing a number and - floating point operation per sec is more valid measure of speed" - that's not what was asked. What is floating point? Flop= floating point operations per second but what is floating point?
"Formula translation" - correct

do I get the job ? no, fraid not, there are many more tests
"I have no intention of using the internet to find out things you already know " - who asked you to?

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for "ammebly" read "assembly"

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no takers for 2)?

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2. More or less half a byte?