Objectives (continued):
❑ To describe how reals are stored in a computer using floatingpoint format. To describe how text is stored in a computer using one of the various encoding systems. To describe how audio is stored in a computer using sampling, quantization, and encoding.
both refer to the same quantity, (42)10 but their
representations are different. This is the same as using
the words cheval (French) and equus (Latin) to refer to
❑ ❑
To describe how integers are stored in a computer using sign-and-magnitude format. To describe how integers are stored in two’s complement format.
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1.1 TURING MODEL
The idea of a universal computational device was first described by Alan Turing in 1937. He proposed that all computation could be performed by a special kind of a machine, now called a Turing machine. Although Turing presented a mathematical description of such a machine, he was more interested in the philosophical definition of computation than in building the actual machine.