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Author Craddock, Gavin, author

Title Essential maths skills for AS/A- level computer science / Gavin Craddock and Victoria Ellis
Published Banbury, Oxfordshire : Philip Allan for Hodder Education, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (104 pages) : color illustrations
Contents Cover; Book title; Contents; Introduction; 1 Number systems and sets; Number systems; Sets; 2 Number bases; Converting a base 2 or base 16 number to base 10; Converting a base 10 to a base 2 or base 16 number; 3 Units; Binary prefixes; Decimal prefixes; 4 Arithmetic operations in a programming language ; DIV; Mod; Power; Rounding and truncating; Logical operations; 5 Binary numbers; Signed vs unsigned binary; Key values for n bits; Binary addition; Binary multiplication; Representing negative numbers; Fixed point; Logical shifts; Bitwise operators; 6 Floating point data representation
Floating point binaryNormalisation; Range and precision; Errors; 7 Representing images, sound and other data; Bitmap images; Sound samples; 8 Boolean algebra ; Logic gates; Boolean algebra; Boolean identities and De Morgan's laws; 9 Vectors ; Vector representation; Vector addition; Scalar vector multiplication; Dot product of two vectors; Convex combination of two vectors; 10 Big-O notation and complexity of algorithms; Functions; Complexity of algorithms; Exam-style questions; Appendix; Specification cross-reference
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Subject A-level examinations -- Great Britain
Educational tests and measurements -- Computer programs
EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
A-level examinations
Educational tests and measurements -- Computer programs
Great Britain
Form Electronic book
Author Ellis, Victoria, author
ISBN 9781471863585
1471863581