2NUMERIC REPRESENTATION
High-level languages shield programmers from the pain of dealing with low-level numeric representation. Writing great code, however, requires that you understand how computers represent numbers, so that is the focus of this chapter. Once you understand internal numeric representation, you’ll discover efficient ways to implement many algorithms and avoid the pitfalls associated with common programming practices.
2.1 What Is a Number?
Having taught assembly language programming for many years, I’ve discovered that most people don’t understand the fundamental difference between a number and the representation of that number. ...
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