How To Tell Computers What To Do
Problems Imagine that you have just been given one hundred arithmetic problems to do and you need to work out all of the answers before you can have any leisure…
Problems Imagine that you have just been given one hundred arithmetic problems to do and you need to work out all of the answers before you can have any leisure…
Data needs to be transferred from one location to another, this is a fundamental concept in Computing, for example: Regardless of whether the data is being sent the short distance…
The series of events that made it possible to develop hardware capable of performing computation extend a very long way back through time. As long ago as the fourth century…
For example, represent the value -0.5 as a twos complement floating point number with an eight bit mantissa and a four bit exponent. The twos complement of -0.5 is 1.1.…
While fixed point binary offers a simple approach to representing real numbers, the range of numbers that we can represent is limited. A more common, but slightly more complex approach…