3BINARY ARITHMETIC AND BIT OPERATIONS
As Chapter 2 explained, understanding how computers represent data in binary is a prerequisite to writing software that works well on them. Of equal importance is understanding how computers operate on binary data. That’s the focus of this chapter, which explores arithmetic, logical, and bit operations on binary data.
3.1 Arithmetic Operations on Binary and Hexadecimal Numbers
Often, you need to manually operate on two binary (or hexadecimal) values in order to use the result in your source code. Although there are calculators that can compute such results, you should be able to perform simple arithmetic operations ...
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