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How would you declare a constant of 5 called MYCONST?

A constant of 5 called MYCONST would be declared as #define MYCONST 5. This is because the statement used is a define statement.


Write a preprocessor directive to accomplish Define symbolic constant YES to have the value 1?

I'm not exactly sure that this is a question, but here you are:#define YES 1


What are 3 types of opposition to current flow that impedance represents?

Impedance represents three types of opposition to current flow: resistance, inductive reactance, and capacitive reactance. Resistance opposes current flow due to the material properties, causing energy dissipation as heat. Inductive reactance arises from inductors, opposing changes in current due to magnetic fields, while capacitive reactance comes from capacitors, opposing changes in voltage due to electric fields. Together, these components define how alternating current behaves in a circuit.


Why and when do you use the define directive?

The #define preprocessor directive is severely overused in my opinion. Often, you will see programmers write something like this: # define MAX(a, b) (((a) > (b))? (a) : (b)) However doing so is rather dangerous, because the preprocessor replaces things textually. This means that if you pass in a call to a function, it may happen twice, for example: MAX(++i, j) will be expanded to (((++i) > (j))? (++i) : (j)) which is bad. A much safer (and more common) example is that people will use #define to create a constant variable: #define MYCONST 10 This too can cause problems if another file depends on the constant and certain other conditions are met. A safer alternative is to declare a const variable. The one advantage of using #define for literal constants is that the number will not be stored in memory attached to an object like a const variable will.


What is the effect of this statement in C program define PI 3.14159?

All pre-processor directives begin with a # symbol. One of the most-used pre-processor directives is the #define directive, which has the following syntax:#define SYMBOL definitionThis defines a macro. During preprocessing, all occurrences of SYMBOL within your source code will be replaced with whatever is written in the definition (which includes everything up to the end of the line).#define PI 3.14159Here, all occurrences of the symbol PI within your source code will be replaced with the character sequence 3.14159. So if your source contained the following function:double area_of_circle (double radius) {return 2*PI*radius*radius; // 2 PI r squared}The compiler will see the following instead:double area_of_circle (double radius) { return 2*3.14159*radius*radius;}While this may well seem a convenient method of defining constants, it is not. Macros should never be used to define constants. If you need a constant, use an actual constant. If the constant must be calculated at compile time, then use a constant expression. In this case we can define PI as follows:constexpr double PI (void) {return 4.0 * atan (1.0);}Note that the literal value 3.14159 takes no account of the implementation's precision because the compiler will convert it to a value of 3.141590. By defining the constant expression, the compiler will use a value of 3.14159265359..., including as many digits of precision as the implementation will physically allow, and thus minimising rounding errors.Macros (#defines) should only be used for conditional compilation, never to define constants.

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How would you declare a constant of 5 called MYCONST?

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Write a preprocessor directive to accomplish Define symbolic constant YES to have the value 1?

I'm not exactly sure that this is a question, but here you are:#define YES 1


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