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How do I use math at work?
Prior to my current position as a Product Engineer, I used to be microprocessor
design engineer,
also at Intel. As you might have heard or for the young students who will learn
later, computers
and hence their brains (also known as the microprocessors) work on a number
system called base-2
or binary. This system has only 2 numbers: 0 and 1. Every number is represented
by strings of 0s
and 1s, and the instruction set is completely encoded in binary math. So, the
design, all of test-writing
for design validation (checking the correctness of design), debug is all based
on the binary math
system. When you think about it, it is really amazing how much work 0s and 1s
can do!
It is easier to understand if we think of 0 as OFF position and 1 as ON position
of a switch: the
electrical voltage levels inside a microprocessor chip are either ON or OFF
at any given instant,
so it is only natural that the binary system is used to represent anything in
computer chips!
Contributed by Geetha Jayaraman