UMBC CMSC 313, Computer Organization & Assembly Language, Fall 2003, Section 0101

Data Representation I

Tuesday 09/02, 2001

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Assigned Reading in Murdocca & Heuring:  2.1-2.2, 3.1-3.3

Assigned Reading in Neveln:  2.4-2.7, 3.6-3.8

Assigned:  hw1

Due:   

Topics Covered:

• Slides are available in PDF: Slides02.pdf.
• Formats for representing negative numbers: signed magnitude, one's complement, two's complement and bias.
• Two's complement and modulo arithmetic explains why we can add two's complement numbers the way we do and why we negate two's complement numbers the way we do.