#include
	#include
	//extract the 8-bit exponent field of single precision floating point number f
	//and return it as an unsigned byte
	unsigned char
	get_exponent_field(float f)
	{
	//TODO: Your code here.
	assert(0);
	}
	//clear the most significant b bits of unsigned integer number
	//return the resulting value
	//As an example, suppose unsigned int number = 0xffff0000; int b= 15
	//then the correct return value is 65536
	//if b = 30, then the return value is 0
	//if b = 40, the return value should also be zero
	unsigned int
	clear_msb(unsigned int number, int b)
	{
	//TODO: Your code here
	assert(0);
	}
	//given an array of bytes whose length is array_size (bytes), treat it as a bitmap (i.e. an array of bits),
	//and return the bit value at index i (from the left) of the bitmap.
	//As an example, suppose char array[3] = {0x00, 0x1f, 0x12}, the corresponding
	//bitmap is 0x001f12, thus,
	//the bit at index 0 is bitmap[0] = 0
	//the bit at index 1 is bitmap[1] = 0
	//...
	//the bit at index 11 is bitmap[11] = 1
	//the bit at index 12 is bitmap[12] = 1
	//...
	//the bit at index 16 is bitmap[16] = 0
	//...
	unsigned char
	bit_at_index(unsigned char *array, int array_size, int i)
	{
	//TODO: Your code here
	assert(0);
	}