There are several categories of utility programs that were discussed in this unit. For this item, list one. In one to three sentences, describe the purpose of this category of utilities . Then provide an example of one such utility program and explain its function.

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?

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Helen's credit card has an apr of 15.32% and a grace period of 17 days and helen pays her balance in the full every month. if her last billing cycle ended on september 26, 2009, and she made her payment on october 11, 2009, did she owe any interest on her last statement's balance?