Hardware for Basic Arithmetic Operations as a Subject of Computer Science Courses in High Schools.
Philipp Kersting, Ingo Wegener · 2001
Many people working with computers know much about the software. However, their knowledge on the basic hardware components is restricted. Most people are convinced that computers do arithmetics as they have learnt it in elementary school. They even think that this is more or less the only reasonable way to perform arithmetics. This is definitely wrong. The presentation of methods used by modern hardware for the basic arithmetic operations opens the mind. It shows that it is sometimes necessary to look for completely different solutions of problems which seem to have only one natural solution. Besides this very general aim it will be argued why it is useful to consider hardware realizations of the basic arithmetic operations in computer science courses of high schools.