Practice - Addition and Overflow
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Practice Questions
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What is the hex representation of the decimal number 255?
💡 Hint: Think about how binary digits group into four.
What does binary overflow mean?
💡 Hint: Consider what happens in binary addition.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What does the term 'overflow' refer to in binary addition?
💡 Hint: Think about what happens when the total exceeds what can be shown in binary.
True or False: In two's complement representation, the bit pattern '11111111' represents +1.
💡 Hint: Recall how two's complement works.
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Challenge Problems
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You have an 8-bit binary number representing -3. What is this number in two's complement, and what number results when you add it to +1?
💡 Hint: Convert -3 to two's complement and perform the addition step-by-step.
If you add two 4-bit numbers, 0110 and 1011. What do you get, and why might it cause an overflow?
💡 Hint: Count your bits and check if the result fits within four bits.
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