Practical Programmer Math: From Booleans to Bits to Bytes
The “Why This Should Matter to You” Story A few scenarios today: You don’t understand why the answer to “how many bytes are in a kilobyte” isn’t 1000 (at least, not exactly). You see if((x & mask) > 7) and wonder why it compiles despite the author forgetting an ‘&’ You feel a little ashamed…