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Re: How do computers calculate math problems?

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killjoy37 is not online. killjoy37
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27 Jun 2012 10:07 AM
How did anyone teach or program the computer to be able to do math?
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legokid135 is not online. legokid135
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27 Jun 2012 10:11 AM
How did anyone teach themselves to program a computer to teach people who don't know how to do math and don't know how to program how to do math and how to program?

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ElectricBlaze is not online. ElectricBlaze
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27 Jun 2012 10:25 AM
@lego - You fail at paradox making. Let me fix that.

How did anyone teach themselves to program a computer if they didn't know math that allowed them to program math into a computer that knew math and could use it to program a computer with the ability to use math to program people who knew math and could program math into computers who knew math.
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sircfenner is not online. sircfenner
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27 Jun 2012 10:26 AM
Title fix. Maths*.
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ElectricBlaze is not online. ElectricBlaze
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27 Jun 2012 10:28 AM
@sir - Not in American English.
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miz656 is not online. miz656
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27 Jun 2012 10:36 AM
Well, you would have to look this one up because I don't know. Computers were made back back then. Not like, 1400's(though that would be cool) but lets say they weren't made in the 2000 >. Though, these days computers are really fast. So they calculate things differently from humans. Computers are smart but not wide eyed. Finally, remember that if there is an error in your script and you want to argue trust me. You won't win that fight.


Got a little bit off topic but WHATEVER :P
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ElectricBlaze is not online. ElectricBlaze
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27 Jun 2012 10:40 AM
miz, computers were first introduced in the 1950s. They had no monitors, they took up a whole room, the internet didn't exist yet, and pretty much only the government and a few big companies had them. 2000? What planet are you living on? :P
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miz656 is not online. miz656
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27 Jun 2012 10:43 AM
I meant they weren't made in the year 2000 above.

If internet was not introduced then it would be janky for me . . .

Ah, the world always improves.
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ElectricBlaze is not online. ElectricBlaze
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27 Jun 2012 10:45 AM
:P

The internet was introduced in the 80s, and people STILL didn't use them much.
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miz656 is not online. miz656
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27 Jun 2012 10:47 AM
That's because Lua didn't come on then :D!

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killjoy37 is not online. killjoy37
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27 Jun 2012 10:54 AM
what would the code look like is what I mean, HOW did they program computers to do math, even calculators.
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miz656 is not online. miz656
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27 Jun 2012 10:54 AM
Google it.
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legokid135 is not online. legokid135
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27 Jun 2012 10:55 AM
50. years. later.

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myrkos is not online. myrkos
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27 Jun 2012 10:59 AM
Computers "do math" on the hardware level, by using binary which is super easy to operate with.
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ElectricBlaze is not online. ElectricBlaze
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27 Jun 2012 11:13 AM
Yep. They convert the numbers to binary, do the math, and convert them back to decimal.
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legokid135 is not online. legokid135
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27 Jun 2012 11:14 AM
"decimal". No.

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killjoy37 is not online. killjoy37
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27 Jun 2012 11:15 AM
thanks myrkos, the only one who actually helped
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jode6543 is not online. jode6543
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27 Jun 2012 11:17 AM
@Lego
Yes. Do you input binary directly into your calculator? I think not.

-Jode
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legokid135 is not online. legokid135
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27 Jun 2012 11:18 AM
I've attempted it once, didn't output anything that I was looking for though. Quite strange really, I have a scientific calculator. [/stupidity]

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ElectricAxel is not online. ElectricAxel
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27 Jun 2012 11:27 AM
It is decimal, decimal are the 10 numbers (0 through 9) you use, binary only uses 2, octal 8, hexadecimal (hexa = 6, decimal = 10 = 16) uses 16 (0 through 15, where 10 through 15 are A through F)... ETC, google actually shows you how math is done in binary, its quite interesting:

0 + 0 = 0
0 + 1 || (or) 1 + 0 = 1
1 + 1 = 10

(note the example below doesn't use the usual byte (8 bit ( 8 digit binary))

..0101101 + (1 + 0 + 4 + 8 + 0 + 32 = 45)
..1110100 = (0 + 0 + 4 + 0 + 16 + 32 + 64 = 116)
10100001 (1 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 32 + 0 + 128 = 161)
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su8 is not online. su8
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27 Jun 2012 11:37 AM
And just FYI, every time you add 0 to the end of binary it doubles
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killjoy37 is not online. killjoy37
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27 Jun 2012 11:50 AM
that was the only thing I didn't know, cool.
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