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Week 02 Notes for DAT2343
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Lecture Notes for This Week

- From Blackboard Course Documents (publisher-restricted distribution): 02.ppt
- 010_arithmetic_terms.txt
- 020_operation_output_size.txt
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_notation
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Computer_arithmetic
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_numbering_formats
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_numeral_system
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octal
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal
- http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~pfeiffer/classes/273/notes/binary.html

   "It may come as a surprise that terminating decimal fractions can have
    repeating expansions in binary. It is for this reason that many are
    surprised to discover that 0.1 + ... + 0.1, (10 additions) differs from
    1 in floating point arithmetic. In fact, the only binary fractions with
    terminating expansions are of the form of an integer divided by a power
    of 2, which 1/10 is not."
    - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_numeral_system

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