How can you solve for the allowed range of x? (Don't actually do this unless you want to).

A good answer might be:

The result, poly must fit into 32 bits, two's complement. So -2³¹ <= 5x^2 -12x + 97 <= 2³¹ - 1. Further algebraic fussing gives the range of x.

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word alignment
Byte order: little endian and big endian
MIPS and SPIM byte order
address calculation
lw instruction
Operation of the lw instruction
load delay slot
sw instruction
lui instruction
symbolic address
.word directive
.data directive
register use table
accumulator

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