Questions tagged [twos-complement]

Concerning the two's complement representation of signed integers. This includes understanding the representation, range, and risk of overflow (carrying into or borrowing from the sign bit) and low-level operations on two's complement numbers. It would not include ordinary use of integers in high-level languages unless range, size, and overflow are concerns.

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Creating a rubric for computer arithmetic

I'd like to move to mastery-based grading and have drafted a set of rubrics for my undergraduate computer architecture class. I am having trouble with the one for computer arithmetic, which includes ...
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