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The Chinese language is one of the most complex and comprehensive languages in the world. Sometimes I feel lucky to be Chinese, specifically when I see some of my foreign friends struggle to learn the ...

Why an 8-bit microcontroller needs more than 8-bit arithmetic: A wide range of control applications uses data with more than 8 bits of precision. Most 8-bit microcontrollers can handle limited, ...

Endianness comes in two varieties: big and little. A big endian representation has a multibyte integer written with its most significant byte on the left; a number represented thus is easily read by ...