We’ve been talking about algorithms involving numbers. That presumes that computers can process numbers.
Can they?
What numbers?
How are those numbers stored?
Do the details matter?
A simple conceptual RAM stores bits.
A modern real RAM stores bytes.
Nybbles and Hex
- Decimal <=> Binary
- Binary <=> Hex
- Hex <=> Decimal
1, 2, 4, 8 byte integers
Sign bits
Floating Point
