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Two's complement is the most common signed integer representation scheme on computers. The scheme widely used because a computer can use the same circuitry to perform addition, subtraction and multiplication, whereas otherwise they would have to be treated as separate operations. Also, two's complement has no representation for negative zero, and thus does it not suffer from associated difficulties. | Two's complement is the most common signed integer representation scheme on computers. The scheme is widely used because a computer can use the same circuitry to perform addition, subtraction and multiplication, whereas otherwise they would have to be treated as separate operations. Also, two's complement has no representation for negative zero, and thus does it not suffer from associated difficulties. | ||
=Mathematical Foundation= | =Mathematical Foundation= | ||
Revision as of 00:20, 6 April 2020
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Overview
Two's complement is the most common signed integer representation scheme on computers. The scheme is widely used because a computer can use the same circuitry to perform addition, subtraction and multiplication, whereas otherwise they would have to be treated as separate operations. Also, two's complement has no representation for negative zero, and thus does it not suffer from associated difficulties.
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Practical Implications
Subtraction
used by most computers to represent signed integral values such as byte, int or long.
Positive numbers
Negative numbers
The primary motivation between this scheme is that