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Mechanisms of Using Numbers in Computer Engineering

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In engineering studies, working with numbers is one of the most substantial concepts. Numbers are not used only in civil or architecture engineering as most of people think. Numbers are important in all engineering disciplines. For example, agriculture engineers work in numbers in there calculation to design systems that produce food, feed, fiber and other products with high quality. Also, in computer engineering field, computer engineers must know how to deal with numbers because computer language based on numbers. For this reason, this section will describe the mechanisms of using numbers in a proper way.

• Numbers notation is a way that scientist used to reformat numbers especially, very large numbers and vary small numbers. Numbers notation has many useful properties, so it used by scientist, mathematicians, and engineers. (a x 10^b) is the form of all numbers written in scientific notation ,where b is an integer number , and a is real number . Also, we can read as 'a' times 10 raised to power b. However, any number can be written in scientific notation (ax10) .for any number greater than 1 the exponent b is positive. Otherwise, when number between 0 & 1 the exponent b is negative and it can be written as ( ax10^-b). For example 0.0015 can be written as .5 x 10^-3.

When performing a mathematical calculation, it is important to pay attention to accuracy. Suppose you are asked to measure the width of a standard piece of paper such as a page in this research . The

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