Perhaps surprisingly, a great deal of data manipulation in a computer is simply moving data around without changing it at all.
Not so surprisingly, a fair amount of the data manipulation takes the form of arithmetic: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. For example, some of the lossy compression techniques I mentioned in Sections 3.3 and 4.3 require a great deal of arithmetic. I'll talk more about arithmetic involving binary numbers in Section 7.
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Can you manipulate or operate a computer?
Perhaps surprisingly, a great deal of data manipulation in a computer is simply moving data around without changing it at all.
Not so surprisingly, a fair amount of the data manipulation takes the form of arithmetic: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. For example, some of the lossy compression techniques I mentioned in Sections 3.3 and 4.3 require a great deal of arithmetic. I'll talk more about arithmetic involving binary numbers in Section 7.
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