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Engineering Digital Design
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Engineering Digital Design

by Richard F. Tinder
January 2000
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
884 pages
29h 39m
English
Academic Press
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32 CHAPTER 2 / NUMBER SYSTEMS, BINARY ARITHMETIC, AND CODES
be readily understood by humans. A minimum number of identifiable characters (say 1 and
0, or true and false) is not practical or desirable for direct human use. If this is difficult
to understand, imagine trying to complete a tax form in binary or in any number system
other than decimal. On the other hand, use of a computer for this purpose would not only
be practical but, in many cases, highly desirable.
2.2 POSITIONAL AND POLYNOMIAL REPRESENTATIONS
The positional form of a number is a set of side-by-side (juxtaposed) digits given generally
in fixed-point form as
Radix
MSD Point LSD
↓↓
N
r
= (
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