Section 5.5
Review Questions
Registers

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1. What is usually stored in a register?

2. What do we call the bit at the right end of a number, when written from left to righ, such as 1101111010000001₂?

3. What do we call registers used by assembly programmers to store intermediate values?

4. How many bits wide are most such registers?

5. What other component(s) of a computer system often determine how wide registers will be?