One of the things I love to do is teach people about computers, especially how we can use them to represent and manipulate different types of numbers (I really need to get out more). For the purposes ...

You can carry out binary division, one of the most difficult operations for a computer to perform, in simple mPs using low-level instructions. Performing long division in any number system can be ...

[Hamster] wanted to take a look at division operations when the chip you’re using doesn’t have a divide instruction. He makes the point that the divide instruction takes a lot of space on the die, and ...

In the first column of this series, I introduced the concepts underlying BCD (binary-coded-decimal) representations. In my second column I discussed how we go about adding and subtracting unsigned BCD ...