- Intro to LaTeX
- (LaTeX = widely-used mathematical type-setting program, very good to know if you expect to write professional math)
- Tuesday, Sept. 8, 6:00 - 7:30 PM, Welles 26
- Bring laptop
- Prof. Leary
- Class Google group
- math230-01-fal15-googlegroup@geneseo.edu
- Use for email to class
- Also has shared access to these notes
- Sections 1.2 - 1.5
- Binary numbers represent numbers with 0 and 1
- Or any information
- 0 and 1 represented by charge/voltage
- What’s the point of the switch exercise (participation 1.2.1)?
- Think of the switch as being electronically controlled
- Then you can build logical and arithmetic calculations from it
- Machine-level instructions?
- Groups of bits within memory can be interpreted as operations to do and locations of places to get operands from
- Encoding of instructions in binary is arbitrary
- Binary numbers represent numbers with 0 and 1
- How many values can n bits represent?
- 2n because each bit has 2 possible values which can
be picked independently of other bits
- 2n because each bit has 2 possible values which can
be picked independently of other bits
- Matlab’s built-in numeric functions
- Read section 2.2 in textbook