On the off chance you are just joining the party, you might want to visit the earlier installments of this mega-mini-series. In a crunchy nutshell, in Part 1, we introduced unsigned and signed ...

Beginners often have difficulty reading the value of –2’s complement number; here’s a simple technique that may help. In my previous column, I introduced the SANX-I Microcomputer, whose goal is to ...

This is related to a homework assignment I'm doing, so please excuse me... I have two numbers in two's complement: 1011.101 and 0111.011 (-5.25 and 7.375 respectively). I know their sum in base 10 ...

One of the things I love to do is teach people about computers, especially how we can use them to represent and manipulate different types of numbers (I really need to get out more). For the purposes ...