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Computational Thinking for the Modern Problem Solver
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Computational Thinking for the Modern Problem Solver

by David Riley, Kenny A. Hunt
March 2014
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
405 pages
12h 16m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
Content preview from Computational Thinking for the Modern Problem Solver
How Real-World Information Becomes Computable Data   ◾     37  
is represented in each of these four numeral systems: tally marking, the
Roman numeral system, the decimal system, and the binary system.
In the tally marking system, all tally marks carry the same meaning: a
value of one. e number represented by a particular tally is simply the sum of
all the tally marks. In positional numbering systems, however, the digits of a
number carry a meaning that is dependent upon where the digit is positioned
within the number. Take the decimal number 323 for example. In this num-
ber, the rst digit means three hundreds and the last digit means three ...
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ISBN: 9781466587793