Module 1: Basic Set Theory
Module 2: Modular Arithmetic, Divisibility, and the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic
Module 3: Functions and Relations
Module 4: Truth Tables and Symbolic Logic
Module 5: Basic Direct Proofs
Module 6: Proof Techniques Part 1: Contrapositive and Contradiction
Module 7: Sequences, Sums, and Products
Module 8: Proof Techniques Part 2: (Weak) Induction
Module 9: Recurrence Relations and Recursion
Module 10: Counting Systems (Binary, Hex, Octal, etc.)
Module 11: Combinatorics
Module 12: Graph Theory
Module 13: Review

Arithmetic in Binary

In What Follows…

Essentially all your life, you’ve been doing arithmetic with “decimal” numbers, indicating that numbers are represented using ten digits, 0 through 9 (“deci-” is a Greek prefix meaning “ten”). It turns out that numbers can be represented using as many digits as one likes! In what follows, we introduce binary numbers, which are numbers represented using only two digits, namely 0 and 1. We also show how one can leverage the arithmetic techniques you learned when you were 5-8 years old to add, subtract, multiply, and divide binary numbers.

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