Learn Number Bases

Description

In this course, you will :

• Discover how to write any number with only 1s and 0s.
• In computer science, apply your binary skills to real-world scenarios.
• Decipher the magic of card shuffling using binary.
• Use your knowledge of divisibility rules to solve cryptogram puzzles!
• In situations where there is a shortcut method, perform arithmetic.
• Explore the unexpected patterns that emerge when you calculate digital roots.
• To solve this variety of problems, apply your general knowledge of base ten.
• Discover some hexadecimal number theory tricks.
• Find a divisibility test that employs an alternating sum.
• Explore large calculations that can still be answered: what is the last digit?

Syllabus :

1. Introduction

• The Invention of Number Bases
• Introducing Binary
• Binary on Computers

 

2. Binary and Other Bases

• Exploding Dots
• Binary
• Binary Operations
• Perfect Shuffles

 

3. Digits and Divisibility

• Divisibility
• Last Digits Rules
• More Divisibility Rules
• Cryptograms Solved By Divisibility

 

4. Decimal Expansions in Base 10

• Factorial Refresher
• Calculation Tricks
• Digital Roots
• Terminating Decimals

 

5. Divisibility in Other Bases

• Hexadecimal Divisibility Shortcuts 
• Divisibility Shortcuts in Other Bases

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