Adding & Subtracting Binary numbers

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Shamieh

Joined Oct 24, 2013
36
A little confused on this problem... Suppose I have

000111
+ 111101
_________

wouldn't I just have

7 - 61 = -68

Thus my answer would be: 1000100 ? But wouldn't I have an overflow? & if i Had an overflow and discarded that 1 then wouldn;t I have the incorrect answer? OR do I need to take the second number and invert it and then add 1? But wouldn't doing that change the number all together?
 

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Shamieh

Joined Oct 24, 2013
36
Well it says to perform the following 6-bits 2's complement addition, note whether an overflow occurs, and if there isnt a overflow write down the result in decimal.
 

Thread Starter

Shamieh

Joined Oct 24, 2013
36
Here are the directions. Perform the following 6-bit 2's complement addition, note whether an overflow occurs, and if there isn't an overflow write down the result in decimal.

000111
+
111101
_______

I'm assuming this is 7 + -61 = -68

And I got 1000100 but I got 7 digits so I got a extra number so wouldn't that be an overflow?

Or would I need to take that second number and 2's complement it making it 000010 + 1 getting 000011 and then take that new number and have 000111 + 000011 getting 001010?

 

MrChips

Joined Oct 2, 2009
30,618
2's complement means that both positive and negative numbers are represented, i.e. 6-bit signed integers.

Your two numbers are 6 bits long.

The first number is 7. The second number is -3.
7 + (-3) = 4
 

shteii01

Joined Feb 19, 2010
4,644
Here are the directions. Perform the following 6-bit 2's complement addition, note whether an overflow occurs, and if there isn't an overflow write down the result in decimal.

000111
+
111101
_______

I'm assuming this is 7 + -61 = -68

If 111101 is in 2's complement form, then it is not -61.

If I am reading right, you have some number X. You want to perform operation: 7-X. To do this you need to rewrite the operation: 7+ (-X). The -X is given to you, it is 111101. But we don't know what the original X was in the first place. And because we don't know the original X, we can not check your answer.

It looks like X originally was 3. So what you are trying to do is: 7-3

To get -3 you take 3 and do 2's complement on it, you get 111101, so now you have -3.

Now we do 7+ (-3): 000111 + 111101, we get overflow and a 4. Since 7-3=4, we did the math correctly, but the overflow causes the answer to be out of bound since the highest value for 6 bit number is 64, but we got 64+4=68.
 

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Shamieh

Joined Oct 24, 2013
36
Yes, but if we have 7 - 4 = 3, then we disregard the 1 right? So we wouldn't have an overflow correct? because its 7 +- 3 = 4 which is just 000100 which = 3. So don't we just disregard the one?
 

WBahn

Joined Mar 31, 2012
29,930
A little confused on this problem... Suppose I have

000111
+ 111101
_________

wouldn't I just have

7 - 61 = -68

Thus my answer would be: 1000100 ? But wouldn't I have an overflow? & if i Had an overflow and discarded that 1 then wouldn;t I have the incorrect answer? OR do I need to take the second number and invert it and then add 1? But wouldn't doing that change the number all together?
Signed binary representations only make sense for fixed-width representations because we need to have a known location for the sign bit. So if you are using a six bit representation, you will end up with a six bit result.

How are you getting that 111101 is -61? How would you represent +61?

The following material might help you out:

http://www.dragonwins.com/domains/getteched/binary/index.htm
 
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