Binary is the computer way. While we might carry on using our outmoded base ten methods with the most minor of excuses - why let the possession of ten fingers influence your choice of number base - ...

Full lesson - Introduction to representing negative numbers in binary. This lesson recaps binary representation and then introduces negative numbers. To aid understanding of two’s complement, binary ...

40 self marked questions on two’s compliment binary to denary and denary to binary. Tasks to represent negative binary numbers. Useful for GCSE edexcel, IGCSE cambridge and A level specifications.

Beginners often have difficulty reading the value of –2’s complement number; here’s a simple technique that may help. In my previous column, I introduced the SANX-I Microcomputer, whose goal is to ...

One of the things I love to do is teach people about computers, especially how we can use them to represent and manipulate different types of numbers (I really need to get out more). For the purposes ...

On the off chance you are just joining the party, you might want to visit the earlier installments of this mega-mini-series. In a crunchy nutshell, in Part 1, we introduced unsigned and signed ...