In the computer, all data are represented as binary digits (bits), and eight binary digits make up one byte. For example, the upper case letter A is 0101001. Numbers however can take several forms.

The following table shows the decimal values of binary numbers. Just as the largest value in a decimal number is all 9's, the largest value in a group of binary digits is all 1's. A decimal digit ...

Anyone ever here of any functions related to this?<BR><BR>Basically I'm trying to find an efficient way to find the index of a binary number as it lies within a column of Pascal's triangle.<BR><BR>see ...

It’s hard to believe today, but in the 1940s, the earliest computer technicians actually worked at the bit level. If a computer made a mistake and the technician determined it wasn’t from a burned-out ...

Beginners often have difficulty reading the value of –2’s complement number; here’s a simple technique that may help. In my previous column, I introduced the SANX-I Microcomputer, whose goal is to ...

You are debugging your microcontroller code. Your design should blink an LED after a counter has counted down 102 times. When the inital value of the counter is 10110011 it doesn’t seem to blink. What ...