Assignment 5

Question 1 2 points

Programming in the REPL, experiment with expressions that involve integers and division. Which of the following best describes the evaluation of the expression 99999 / 100000?

Evaluation fails, producing an error message.

The expression’s value is 0, because integer division rounds the result towards zero.

The expression’s value is 0.99999, because the division doesn’t result in an integer.

The expression’s value is 1, because the result gets rounded to the closest integer.

The expression’s value is 1, because integer division always rounds up to an integer.

The expression’s value is 1, because the exact result is very close to the integer one.

Question 2 2 points

What if the expression is 1000 / (5 / 6) instead?

Evaluation fails, producing an error message.

The expression evaluates to 1000.

The expression evaluates to 1200.

The expression evaluates to a very large number.

The expression evaluates to infinity.

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