Consider a carry lookahead adder for adding two $$n$$-bit integers, built using gates of fan-in at most two. The time to perform addition using this adder is

Two eigenvalues of a $$3 \times 3$$ real matrix $$P$$ are $$\left( {2 + \sqrt { - 1} } \right)$$ and $$3.$$ The determinant of $$P$$ is _______.

$$\mathop {\lim }\limits_{x \to 4} {{\sin \left( {x - 4} \right)} \over {x - 4}} = \_\_\_\_\_\_\_.$$

A probability density function on the interval $$\left[ {a,1} \right]$$ is given by $$1/{x^2}$$ and outside this interval the value of the function is zero. The value of $$a$$ is _________.