CSCI 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Radix Point, Floating Points, Natural Number
12 Sep 2018
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The less the better, as less memory is taken up. How much can we express by using a certain number of bits? n -> number of bits n. The decimal equivalent of a binary value is the sum of all the bit position values that contain a bx1. Are made using binary code, only 0 and 1 are used. (this is why black and white are the only colours present in these codes) We must dedicate one bit of information to the negative sign. This is the initial number in the string. 0 will represent a positive integer, and 1 will represent a negative integer. This matters when you design and program a database. This is because of the way that the two"s compliment system pattern works, as it is always going to be one less than the same amount of.
