Computer arithmetic plays a key role in the computer designers' quest for user-friendliness, compactness, simplicity, high performance, low cost, and low power.... » 

Computer arithmetic plays a key role in the computer designers' quest for user-friendliness, compactness, simplicity, high performance, low cost, and low power. This text emphasizes the underlying theory and actual hardware designs, and links computer arithmetic to other subfields of computing. «