Название: Inside Your Calculator: From Simple Programs to Significant Insights
Автор: Gerald R. Rising
Издательство: John Wiley & Sons, Inc
ISBN: 978-0-470-11401-8
Год: 2007
Страниц: 293
Формат: PDF
Размер: 6 Mб
Язык: English

Uncover the mysteries that lie within your calculator This remarkable book explores the simple internal calculator processesalgorithms and programsthat tell us, for example, that the cosine of 56? is 0.5591929035. Using carefully constructed diagrams and figures, the author effectively demonstrates how calculator keys compute powers, roots, logarithms, and trigonometry functions, while also providing insights into simple programming, the conversion between decimal and binary numeration, and perhaps most importantly, the structure of our numeration system