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Microprocessor's Romance With Negative Integers – The How and Why of CPU Arithmetic Design

Microprocessor’s Romance With Negative Integers – The How and Why of CPU Arithmetic Design.
By Vivek Agrawal One of the first things we learn about computers is that they only understand 0s and 1s, or bits. We humans, on the other hand, communicate numbers via the decimal system. This system uses digits from 0 to 9 along with plus and minu…

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