Floyd The Science of Electronics: Digital 1e

Chapter 5

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1. Computers use various methods to perform arithmetic operations.

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Hint: Refer to the Introduction of Chapter 5 of the text.
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2. The 2's complement of a binary number is formed by inverting all of the bits.

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Hint: Refer to Section 5-3 of the text.
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3. A half-adder is a logic circuit that adds two binary digits (bits) and produces a sum and
a carry.

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Hint: Refer to Section 5-1 of the text.
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4. A logic circuit that adds two binary digits with an input carry and produces a sum and
an output carry is called a full-adder.

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Hint: Refer to Section 5-1 of the text.
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5. An algorithm for division is to subtract the divisor from the dividend until you get a
zero or a negative number.
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Hint: Refer to Section 5-5 of the text.
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6. A parallel binary adder is a logic circuit that consists of two or more half-adders that
can add binary numbers.

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Hint: Refer to Section 5-2 of the text.
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7. Computers mainly use the 2's complement method for arithmetic operations.

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Hint: Refer to Section 5-3 of the text.
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8. An algorithm is a step-by-step process of achieving a given result.

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Hint: Refer to Section 5-5 of the text.
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9. In a binary floating-point number, there is always a 1 to the left of the binary point,
which is not shown since it is understood to be there.

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Hint: Refer to Section 5-6 of the text.
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10. In computers the arithmetic and logic operations are performed by the arithmetic
logic unit.

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Hint: Refer to Section 5-9 of the text.
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