Description
Book SynopsisComputer Arithmetic in Practice: Exercises and Programming is a simple, brief introductory volume for undergraduate and graduate students at university courses interested in understanding the foundation of computers. It is focused on numeric data formats and capabilities of computers to perform basic arithmetic operations. It discusses mainly such topics as:
- Basic concepts of computer architecture
- Assembly language programming skills
- Data formats used to express integer and real numbers
- Algorithms of basic arithmetic operations
- Short overview of nonlinear functions evaluation
- Discussion on limited number representation and computer arithmetic
- Exercises and programming tasks
This book provides an accessible overview of common data formats used to write numbers in programming languages and how the computer performs four basic arithmetic operations from the point of view of the processor instruction set. Th
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Basic concepts of computer architecture. Chapter 2: Numbers in fixed-point format. Chapter 3: Basic arithmetic on fixed-point numbers. Chapter 4: Numbers in floating-point format. Chapter 5: Basic arithmetic operations on floating-point numbers. Chapter 6: Limited quality of arithmetic operations. Appendices. Index. References.
