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-Spike Standards
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-At the very least, will have the following spikes:
-    * IEEE floating point:
-        * Testing of Inf
-        * Testing of -Inf
-        * Testing of NaN
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+## Spike Standards
+
+To help us understand the data and tools we are going to be working with for the quadratic solver, spikes will be created for the various topics:
+* IEEE Floating Point numbers
+* Handling input from multiple sources
+* Logging output to files
+* Makefiles
+* The sqrt() function from the Math library
+* Unit Testing in CUnit
+
+All spikes will be created using the C programming language.