The Definitive Guide to How Computers Do Math : Featuring the Virtual DIY Calculator464 pages | Sep 22 2007 |ISBN:0471732788 | PDF | 5.5 Mb

The combination of this book and its associated virtual computer is fantastic! Experience over the last fifty years has shown me that there's only one way to truly understand how computers work; and that is to learn one computer and its instruction set-no matter how simple or primitive-from the ground up. Once you fully comprehend how that simple computer functions, you can easily extrapolate to more complex machines