Read Chapters 0 and 1 in the text.
Use LaTeX to produce a nice hard copy solution, using the official submission guidelines and turn it in at the beginning of class on the due date. Place your tex file in your CVS repository, too (/homework/cmsi282/hw1.tex is an acceptable place).
To get full credit, you have to "show your work". You can use a calculator for big numbers, of course, but you have to show steps of derivations and give good explanations and things like that.