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You should be quite familiar with base-10 arithmetic (We are assuming that your physics undergraduate course was taught in base-10!); digital computers, on the other hand, use base-2 or binary representation for arithmetic. Like base-10, binary is also written using positional notation, however restricted to only allowing the digits 0 and 1.
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Izaac, J., Wang, J. (2018). Numbers and precision. In: Computational Quantum Mechanics. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99930-2_1
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