Abstract
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 (for example [M], [Sh], [St], [T]) 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.
- [M] Mano, M. Morris. Digital Design. Prentice-Hall, 1984. Google Scholar
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- [Sh] Shiva, Sajjan G. Computer Design and Architecture. Little Brown, 1985. Google Scholar
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- [St] Struble, George. Assembler Language Programming (Third Edition). Addison-Wesley, 1984. Google Scholar
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- [T] Tannenbaum, Andrew S. Structured Computer Organization (Second Edition). Prentice-Hall, 1984. Google Scholar
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A geometric approach to presenting computer representations of integers
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