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    Distance between the rods??? It changes!

    The force isn't enough to counterract gravity' acceleration, so the rods stay stationary, the mass and weight force on the scale would be 0 if it lifted off the scale, and there was no indication the scale was depressed in the question so we can only assume the distance was constant.
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    Floatign point numbers

    I think you may have plugged in the value of -3.8x10^18, when the actual value is -3.8x2^18 The page will give you a value of the exponent to be 19, because 3.8 is divisible by 2 Also, i believe the mantissa has to be a number between 1 and 2, with a hidden bit of 1. before it so you get S...
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    Polynomials - Halving the Interval/Bisection

    When they say find the root of a polynomial given some range, to two decimal places , How do you choose when to cut your losses and round up/down? Is it when the solution of the root is 0.00*, or as soon as the divided root becomes two decimal places long? =| Also, how do you round it. Thanks...
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