4. Suppose a computer using fully associative cache has 2^24 words of main memory and a cache of 128 blocks, where each cache block contains 64 words.
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 and word fields?
c) To which cache block will the memory reference 01D87216 map?
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