Inside your calculator
Subtitle: from simple programs to significant insights
By: Gerald R. Rising
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780470124598
Subjects: JUVENILE NONFICTION; Office equipment and supplies; Calculators; Mathematics; Mathematical instruments; General
Description: Many of us want to understand how the technological instruments that so pervade modern society operate. This book answers questions about one of those devices: the scientific calculator. Calculator keys seem to work like magic. They tell us, for example, that the cosine of 56° is 0.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-284) and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: INSIDE YOUR CALCULATOR; CONTENTS; Preface; PART I THE SETTING; 1 Introduction; PART II ALGORITHMS AND PROGRAMS; 2 Numbers, Algorithms, and Programs; 3 Integer Powers; 4 Square Root; 5 Rational Powers; 6 Logarithms; 7 Archimedes' Calculation of p; 8 Calculating Trigonometric Functions; 9 CORDIC Calculation of Cosine; PART III DISPLAYING INFORMATION; 10 Graphing; APPENDIXES; A A Primer on Programming; B Interpolation; C Pre-Electronic Calculation Tools; D Fermat's Last Theorem; E An Extension and an Application of Integer Division; F Binary Arithmetic; G Binary Subtraction.