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 ...

My last column introduced the concepts underlying BCD (binary-coded-decimal) representations. In particular, we considered unsigned versus 10s-complement versions of BCD numbers. In this column we are ...

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 ...