Wednesday, 3 October 2007

Tasks 1-3

Task 1: Suppose you had 3 bits to represent 2s Complement Numbers.
a) What is the weighting of each bit?
[-4],[2],[1]

b) What is the largest number that can be represented?
3

c) What is the smallest number?
-4

Task 2: Suppose you had 7 bits to represent 2s complement number.
a) What is the weighting of each bit?
[-64],[32],[16],[8],[4],[2],[1]

b) What is the largest number that can be represented?
63

c) What is the smallest number?
-64

Task 3: How would you represent:
a)4
00100

b) 8
01000

c) 11
01111

1 comment:

Aaron Bond said...

1. (a)1
(b)1
(c)1
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2. (a)1
(b)1
(c)1
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3. (a)1
(b)1
(c)X