For instance, he tells us the ARM processor used on the Raspberry Pi doesn’t have a divide instruction. Without hardware division you’re left to implement a binary division algorithm.

Binary search is a cornerstone of computer science ... The algorithm functions as follows: It compares the target value with the middle element of the dataset. If the target matches the middle ...

This computer could count up to 387,000,000 with eighteen ternary digits. On the binary machine you’re using right now, representing that would take twenty-nine binary digits. It’s about a 2.5 ...

To represent text in a computer system, we give each character ... is represented by a binary value. Extended ASCII is a version that supports representation of 256 different characters.