TY - JOUR
T1 - A geometric approach to presenting computer representations of integers
AU - Benham, James W.
PY - 1992/1/12
Y1 - 1992/1/12
N2 - The student's first serious exposure to computer arithmetic typically occurs in a sophomore course in machine architecture or assembler language. A glance at several excellent and widely used texts for these courses 1992 shows that this material is often presented as an unmotivated set of mechanical rules to, for example, add numbers using one's complement notation or compute the two's complement representation of a negative integer. This paper describes a way to motivate these topics by relating them to the computer's “natural “ arithmetic.
AB - The student's first serious exposure to computer arithmetic typically occurs in a sophomore course in machine architecture or assembler language. A glance at several excellent and widely used texts for these courses 1992 shows that this material is often presented as an unmotivated set of mechanical rules to, for example, add numbers using one's complement notation or compute the two's complement representation of a negative integer. This paper describes a way to motivate these topics by relating them to the computer's “natural “ arithmetic.
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U2 - 10.1145/141837.141848
DO - 10.1145/141837.141848
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84976683902
SN - 0097-8418
VL - 24
SP - 27
EP - 28
JO - SIGCSE Bulletin (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education)
JF - SIGCSE Bulletin (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education)
IS - 4
ER -