The Definitive Guide to How Computers Do Math : Featuring the Virtual DIY Calculator
by Clive Maxfield
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The Basics of Computer Arithmetic Made Enjoyable and Accessible-with a Special Program Included for Hands-on Learning""The combination of this book and its associated virtual computer is fantastic! Experience over the last fifty years has shown me that there's only one way to truly understand how computers work; and that is to learn one computer and its instruction set-no matter how simple or primitive-from the ground up. Once you fully comprehend how that simple computer functions, you can show more easily extrapolate to more complex machines.""-Fred Hudson, retired engineer/scientistb show lessTags
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More of a software approach than a hardware approach, which isn't bad, but not what I was hoping to read about.
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- Technology, Nonfiction
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- 004.01 — Computer science, information & general works Computer science, knowledge & systems Computer science standard subdivisions Philosophy and theory
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- QA76.9 .M35 .M485 — Science Mathematics Mathematics Instruments and machines Calculating machines Electronic computers. Computer science
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