Inside Your Calculator: From Simple Programs to Significant Insights
English | 304 pages | Sep 22 2010 |ISBN: 0470114010 | PDF | 5.5 Mb

Calculator keys seem to work like magic. They tell us, for example, that the cosine of 56° is 0.559192903. This book explores the simple internal calculator processes (called algorithms or programs) that produce this and similar results. Although the text focuses on the calculator keys that compute powers, roots, logarithms, and trigonometry functions, insights are also provided into simple programming, conversion between decimal and binary numeration, and perhaps most important, the structure of our numeration systems.

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