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  2. Two's complement - Wikipedia

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    Two's complement is the most common method of representing signed (positive, negative, and zero) integers on computers, [1] and more generally, fixed point binary values. Two's complement uses the binary digit with the greatest value as the sign to indicate whether the binary number is positive or negative; when the most significant bit is 1 the number is signed as negative and when the most ...

  3. Overflow flag - Wikipedia

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    Overflow cannot occur when the sign of two addition operands are different (or the sign of two subtraction operands are the same). [1] When binary values are interpreted as unsigned numbers, the overflow flag is meaningless and normally ignored. One of the advantages of two's complement arithmetic is that the addition and subtraction operations ...

  4. Signed number representations - Wikipedia

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    Addition of a pair of two's-complement integers is the same as addition of a pair of unsigned numbers (except for detection of overflow, if that is done); the same is true for subtraction and even for N lowest significant bits of a product (value of multiplication). For instance, a two's-complement addition of 127 and −128 gives the same ...

  5. Saturation arithmetic - Wikipedia

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    For example, adjusting the volume level of a sound signal can result in overflow, and saturation causes significantly less distortion to the sound than wrap-around. In the words of researchers G. A. Constantinides et al.: [1] When adding two numbers using two's complement representation, overflow results in a "wrap-around" phenomenon.

  6. Adder–subtractor - Wikipedia

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    By preceding each A input bit on the adder with a 2-to-1 multiplexer where: Input 0 (I 0) is A; Input 1 (I 1) is A; that has control input D that is also connected to the initial carry, then the modified adder performs addition when D = 0, or; subtraction when D = 1. This works because when D = 1 the A input to the adder is really A and the

  7. Booth's multiplication algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Booth's multiplication algorithm is a multiplication algorithm that multiplies two signed binary numbers in two's complement notation. The algorithm was invented by Andrew Donald Booth in 1950 while doing research on crystallography at Birkbeck College in Bloomsbury, London. [1] Booth's algorithm is of interest in the study of computer ...

  8. Fletcher's checksum - Wikipedia

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    The Fletcher checksum is an algorithm for computing a position-dependent checksum devised by John G. Fletcher (1934–2012) at Lawrence Livermore Labs in the late 1970s. [1] The objective of the Fletcher checksum was to provide error-detection properties approaching those of a cyclic redundancy check but with the lower computational effort ...

  9. Hacker's Delight - Wikipedia

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    Algorithms are given as formulas for any number of bits, the examples usually for 32 bits. Apart from the introduction, chapters are independent of each other, each focusing on a particular subject. Many algorithms in the book depend on two's complement integer numbers. The subject matter of the second edition of the book [1] includes ...