Computer Arithmetic in Practice: Exercises and Programming [Paperback]

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.

Computer 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.

SBawomir Gry[ is a university professor at Czstochowa University of Technology, Poland. He has conducted many courses focused on analog electronics, logical devices, foundations of computer architecture and organization, low-level programming techniques in assembly and C languages for embedded systems, image processing and recognition. He is the author or co-author of several scientific monographs, book chapters, academic textbooks, patents and more than 60 papers in journals and domestic and international conference proceedings in Poland, Germany, Canada and Australia.

Computer 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 represelӎ