SPO600 64-bit Assembler (Week 5 Lab)
In this lab, we go over the basics of the 64-bit assembler.
The first instruction is to unpack code examples provided in a directory of the following structure:
Binary: How low can you go?
In this lecture, Chris spoke about binary representation, the lowest level of data representation. I've always been enamored by graphical representation using bits and bytes, as I've dealt a lot with RGB for web development and graphic editing, so I was pleasantly surprised to see this topic. From what I learnt, several types of data may be encoded in binary: Binary uses 'bits', which stands for binary digits (that second part blew my mind!) either 0 or 1 resistant to errors Integers stored as groups of 8 bits, known as 'bytes' starting from right to left at 0, each bit represents a value of 2^(bit number) e.g. 10010111 = 1x2 7 + 0x2 6 + 0x2 5 + 1x2 4 + 0x2 3 + 1x2 2 + 1x2 1 + 1x2 0 = 151 Fixed-point encoded the same way as integers, but the bits to the right of the decimal point are 'fractional' Floating-point encoded in three parts: the sign bit, the mantissa, and the exponent 0 represents a positive sign bit, whereas 1 is negative common flo...
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