Fundamentals

Machine Code

Under the hood of your program

Floating Point Representation

Numbers with fractions that can be put in the form,

Byte Ordering

In this brief post, we are going to talk about byte order.

Hexadecimal Notation

Hexadecimal uses digits 0–9 and characters staring from ‘A’ to ‘F’ which altogether contains 16 different values. A single hexadecimal digit can be represented by 4 binary digits (Refer Table 1).

Signed and Unsigned Numbers

How computers represent numbers

Computers use binary digits ( or in other words bits) to store and process information. A binary digit can be of one of the two values, 0 or 1.

Number Systems — Decimal, Binary, Octal and Hexadecimal

What exactly is in a 1 bit of digital memory?

We often say that computers only understand ones(1s) and zeroes(0) and in our…