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Binary representation of negative number.

Posted by John on June 21, 2001 at 4:45 PM

> Hi - I was a little confused on how to calculate the bit representation of a negative number.

You take the one's compliment & then add one to it.
The result will be the negative represenation of that number,
assuming that the left most bit is set to 1 to signify that it
is a negative value.

A brief tutorial can be found on the ff. page:
http://www.ee.vt.edu/~jgtront/ece2504/ece2504jgt-2.pdf