This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American My first musical love was Beethoven. The 2nd ...

Students should be able to perform basic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division) and have an understanding of basic Algebra. Students should also understand what the basic number ...

You may never have heard of modular arithmetic, but you use it every day without the slightest difficulty. In this system, numbers wrap around when they reach a certain size called the modulus; it is ...

One of my fellow contributors here recently wrote a post about leap years and why we have them. This reminded me of modular arithmetic and the formula for calculating the day of the week for any date ...

One of the important advantages FPGA architectures offer to designers of DSP-based algorithms is the possibility of doing what has come to be known as distributed arithmetic.16 Distributed Arithmetic ...