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Engineering Digital Design
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Engineering Digital Design

by Richard F. Tinder
January 2000
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
884 pages
29h 39m
English
Academic Press
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CHAPTER 2
Number Systems, Binary
Arithmetic, and Codes
2.1 INTRODUCTION
Number systems provide the basis for conveying and quantifying information. Weather
data, stocks, pagination of books, weights and measures these are just a few examples
of the use of numbers that affect our daily lives. For this purpose we find the decimal (or
Arabic) number system to be reliable and easy to use. This system evolved presumably
because early humans were equipped with a crude type of calculator, their 10 fingers. But a
number system that is appropriate for humans may be intractable for use by a machine such
as a computer. Likewise, a number system appropriate for
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ISBN: 9780126912951