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In Trinidad and Tobago, Carnival is celebrated on the Monday and Tuesday before Lent and is a legacy of the islands’ Catholic heritage.

Fixed-length instructions from RISC are popular nowadays. Can you give the reason of this popularity? 

For normal x86 floating point instructions (non-SIMD), which device do the source operands come from? Which device is used to store their results? 

The composer of Hamilton wrote music and created a visual presentation intended to represent America in the current age.

(Harmonic Mean) Consider three database applications. The first application can perform 40 queries per second. The second application can perform 20 queries per second. And the third application can perform 20 queries per second. For a data processing request, the first application will performance 400 queries, the second application will performance 400 queries, and the last application will performance 200 queries. These three applications need to be started one after another, from the first application to the third. What is the average processing rate (queries per second) after all 1000 operations are finished? 

As an accomplished African American musician and educator, Florence Price left her home in Little Rock, Arkansas, due to the unbearable burden “Jim Crow” laws placed on the black community.

Mandela discarded “The Call of South Africa” and adopted “Lord Bless Africa” as the national anthem of South Africa.

Please give the 16-bit floating point number encoding for the following two numbers. To simplify the computation, please use a bias of 7. All numbers are 2-based.    Sign (1bit) Exponent (4bits) Fraction (11bits) 0.11001×10−11:       −1.0011001×1001:      

English is the official language in Trinidad and Tobago due to the fact that the British assumed military control in 1797.

Ellington’s The Far East Suite is set apart from the classical tradition because: