This chapter begins with an introduction to arithmetic operations in binary, octal, and hexadecimal numbers. The tens-complement and nines-complements in the decimal system and the twos-complement and ...

Microsoft’s Excel helps engineers with calculus and graphics to solve problems. But engineers often have to perform bitwise operations, too. Figure 1 shows the bitwise operations’ tables. The bitwise ...

In the late 1930s, Claude Shannon showed that by using switches that close for "true" and open for "false," it was possible to carry out logical operations by assigning the number 1 to "true" and 0 ...