Practice Sign-magnitude Representation (3.3.2.1) - Processor Organization and Data Representation
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Sign-Magnitude Representation

Practice - Sign-Magnitude Representation

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What does a sign bit of '1' indicate?

💡 Hint: Think about how we represent positive and negative values.

Question 2 Easy

Convert '1100' using Sign-Magnitude into decimal.

💡 Hint: Remember the first digit is the sign bit.

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Question 1

What does the sign bit indicate in Sign-Magnitude representation?

Magnitude
Sign
Value

💡 Hint: Remember the role of the first bit in the representation.

Question 2

True or False: The Sign-Magnitude representation has two distinct representations for zero.

True
False

💡 Hint: Consider how zero can be represented in this format.

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Challenge 1 Hard

Design a simple hardware logic circuit to handle arithmetic operations using Sign-Magnitude representation. What would you include?

💡 Hint: Consider how standard arithmetic circuits handle operations.

Challenge 2 Hard

Create a programming logic snippet that checks if two numbers in Sign-Magnitude are equal. How might the solution account for the duality of zero?

💡 Hint: Think about how equality checks could be defined.

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