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S6:E3 Binary Arithmetic and Data Representation

S6:E3 Binary Arithmetic and Data Representation

Update: 2025-12-15
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This episode provides an overview of binary arithmetic and data types relevant to computer science. It explains how computers perform fundamental operations, focusing on binary addition and the concept of carry and overflow errors. The document also details two methods for representing negative numberssign and magnitude and the more commonly used two's complement, illustrating how arithmetic works differently with each. Finally, it introduces fixed-point binary as a method for representing fractional values in binary, discussing the place value of negative powers of two.

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S6:E3 Binary Arithmetic and Data Representation

S6:E3 Binary Arithmetic and Data Representation

Teacher of Computing - AHC