Binary, Octal, and Hexadecimal Arithmetic for Microcomputers

This is a guidebook to learning binary, octal, and hexadecimal as used in microprocessors and microcontrollers such as the 8086 series, Microchip processors, Arduino type microcontrollers, and many more. It provides clear, easy-to-understand explanations of what binary and other number bases are, how arithmetic is done in microprocessors on an assembly-language level, and how octal and hexadecimal shorthand relates to binary operations. This is a valuable book for computer hobbyists, engineering students, beginning programmers, and those who simply want to learn how microprocessors and microcontrollers handle math operations on a lower level. Topics such as addition, subtraction, two's complement notation, overflow and flags, rotates and shifts, multiple-precision arithmetic, and floating-point formats and operations are covered. In addition the the explanations, conversion tables for decimal, binary, octal, and hexadecimal are provided.