Gain insights into essential number systems for computer scientists. Explore binary representation, and learn to represent and manipulate positive, negative, and fractional numbers stored in computers.

Get introduced to the number systems that are essential for computer scientists, and take a deep dive into binary representation. Learn how to represent and manipulate, positive, negative, and fractional numbers in binary, and learn how numbers are stored and represented in computers.

The only background this course requires is grade-school arithmetic. No programming knowledge is needed.

Number Systems For Computer Scientists

We have covered the basics of what a computer scientist should know about number systems, from binary to octal and hexadecimal representation. We have also learned how to manipulate and represent signed, unsigned and fractional numbers in binary. Finally during the last chapter, we learned the basics of how numbers are actually stored in a computer and how other characters are represented.

You should give yourself a pat on the back for all this newly-acquired knowledge – You are now nothing short of a number systems guru!

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Resources for moving forward with what you have gained from this course.

Introduction

Essential Number Systems

Some Binary Operations

Signed Binary Numbers

Representing Numbers With Fractional Parts

Representation in a Computer

Conclusion

Where to Go From Here?

A quick overview