Mars is the twin planet of the Earth because they have almost the same size, density, and distance from theSun.

What are compression artifacts? 1) visible defects in the picture caused by the nature of the compression algorithm. 2) numbers that tell a web server how much to compress a picture for faster transmission. 3) invisible defects in the picture preserved by lossless compression. 4) numbers that tell a photo editing program how much to compress a picture for faster transmission.

Consider a direct-mapped cache with 216 words in main memory. the cache has 16 blocks of 8 words each. it is a word-addressable computer (rather than a byte-addressable computer which we normally discuss). (a) how many blocks of main memory are there? (b) what is the format of a memory address as seen by the cache, that is, what are the sizes of the tag, cache block, and block offset fields (if they apply)? (c) to which cache block will the memory reference db6316 map?

If an improvement creates no significant change in a product’s performance, then it is a(n) ? a0 design improvement. (there are no answer choices)