Arithmetic Operations and Circuits: Boolean Algebra and Logic Circuits

The advantage of the binary notation for mathematical operations in a digital machine is discussed in Chapter 3. The processing and storing of information is accomplished by means of registers comprised of binary cells that can assume either a 0 or a 1 value. The basic organization of a computer generally consists of memory registers for storing the information, process registers that manipulate the information (i.e., perform the actual computation), and control registers that control the sequence of the various operations.