How how the computer functions related to math?
Question
by Dave_113: How does math relate to how a computer functions?
How does math apply to computer programming, and creating computer hardware?
Best answer:
Answer by Colanth
It doesn’t, really. The best the hardware can do is simple arithmetic and logic.
Answer by Kind_Lad
It depends what computer programming you’re doing. About the most complex math I’ve come across is 2s Compliment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two’s_complement).
But if in programming you’re calculating geo-spatial data, for example, then you need much more complicated mathematics.
I’m not sure about hardware. I suspect video cards might be more complex as they compute physics, but that will be the computer programmer‘s job still.
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