Numbers and Computers

• Main Author: Kneusel, Ronald T. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Arithmetic and logic units, Computer.; Software engineering.; Computer mathematics.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Computer Science.; Arithmetic and Logic Structures.; Software Engineering.; Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.

This is a book about numbers and how those numbers are represented in and operated on by computers. It is crucial that developers understand this area because the numerical operations allowed by computers, and the limitations of those operations, especially in the area of floating point math, affect...

Table of Contents:

• Number Systems
• Integers
• Floating Point
• Big Integers and Rational Arithmetic
• Fixed-Point Numbers
• Decimal Floating Point
• Interval Arithmetic.