Chapter 3. Binary Arithmetic and Bit Operations
Understanding how computers represent data in binary is a prerequisite to writing software that works well on those computers. Of equal importance, of course, is understanding how computers operate on binary data. Exploring arithmetic, logical, and bit operations on binary data is the purpose of this chapter.
3.1 Arithmetic Operations on Binary and Hexadecimal Numbers
Because computers use binary representation, programmers who write great code often have to work with binary (and hexadecimal) values. Often, when writing code, you may need to manually operate on two binary values in order to use the result ...
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