Twos complement is the most popular way of representing negative numbers in computer ,Systems. Give an advantage of using this method.

Twos complement is the most popular way of representing negative numbers in computer Systems. Give an advantage of using this method.

  • There are no two ways of representing a zero as in the case with the other two methods
  • Effective addition and subtraction can be done even with numbers that are represented with a sign bit without a need for extra circuitry to examine the sign of an operand.

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