Math 342 - Week 1 Notes

Mon, Jan 17

We talked about how computers store floating point numbers. Most modern programming languages store floating point numbers using the IEEE 754 standard.

To understand floating point numbers, we also reviewed binary numbers, scientific notation, and logarithmic scales.

Wed, Jan 19

Today we talked about how to use Python and Google Colab.

We did this in-class lab Computing Square Roots with the Babylonian Algorithm.