In technical shop mathematics, as well as in every day activities, we encounter all real numbers, positive and negative, rational and irrational. Quantities less than zero are everyday occurrences a ...

Using 2's comp. signed numbers, the octal number 500 would be negative when converted to decimal, correct? For non-signed numbers, to convert from octal to decimal, you just evaluate the power series ...

One of the things I love to do is teach people about computers, especially how we can use them to represent and manipulate different types of numbers (I really need to get out more). For the purposes ...