• swag_money@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    what’s the general rule for translating negatives from binary? did you just do like 17 - 2 • (-1) or something?

    • Yardy Sardley@lemmy.ca
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      11 hours ago

      I used what known as 2’s compliment. Take the complement (flip all the bits - here that would give you 01110 which is 14) then add 1.

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        10 hours ago

        thanks for the explanation! could you express it as a NOT operation plus one? like is that how it would be processed at a low level?