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Computers In Math - School Essays

Computers In Math

Ever since the first computer was developed in the early 1900's the
computer has been using math to solve most of it's problems. The Arithmetic
and Logical unit helps the computer solve some of these problems. All type
of math can be solved on computer's which it uses.

Binary Arithmetic

A computer understands two states: on and off, high and low, and so on.
Complex instructions can be written as a combination of these two states.
To represent these two conditions mathematically, we can use the digits 1
and 0. Some simple mathematical operations, such as addition and
subtraction, as well as the two's complement subtraction procedure used by
most computer's.

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x2 by x and store x3
4.Multiply x3 by x and store x4
5.Multiply x by 6 and store 6x
6.Multiply stored x2 by 5 and store 5x2
7.Multiply stored x3 by 4 and store 4x3
8.Multiply stored x4 by 6 and store 6x4
9.Add 6x4
10.Add 4x3
11.Subtract 5x3
12.Add 6x
13.Add 4

Binary Coded Decimal

One of the most convenient conversions of decimal to binary coded
decimal's is used today in present day computer's. BCD(Binary Coded
Decimal) is a combination of binary and decimal; that is each separate
decimal digit is represented in binary form. For example the chart below
represents the Binary and Decimal conversions.

Decimal Binary

0 0
1 1
2 10
3 11
4 100
5 101
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