{"id":269823,"date":"2025-07-24T19:57:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T19:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=269823"},"modified":"2025-07-24T19:57:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T19:57:28","slug":"convert-the-following-to-its-twos-complement-binary-representation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/24\/convert-the-following-to-its-twos-complement-binary-representation\/","title":{"rendered":"Convert the following to its Two&#8217;s Complement binary representation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Convert the following to its Two&#8217;s Complement binary representation. If in decimal or hexadecimal, convert to binary first. Use as many bits as you deem necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> a. 0b 1000 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>b. 0b 1110 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>c. 0d 7 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>d. d 0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>e. 0d 15 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>f. 0x C4 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>g. 0x FF<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-6-color\">The correct answer and explanation is:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To convert the given numbers to their Two&#8217;s Complement binary representation, we need to follow a few basic steps. For this task, I\u2019ll convert each value to binary (if it&#8217;s not already), and then determine its Two&#8217;s Complement representation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">a. 0b 1000 (Binary)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This is already in binary. For a positive number like this, the Two\u2019s complement is simply the binary value itself, padded to the desired bit-width if necessary. Let\u2019s assume a 8-bit representation for simplicity:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>8-bit Two&#8217;s Complement<\/strong>: <code>00001000<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">b. 0b 1110 (Binary)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This is also in binary. To represent this number in Two&#8217;s Complement, it stays the same since it&#8217;s positive. For an 8-bit representation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>8-bit Two&#8217;s Complement<\/strong>: <code>00001110<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">c. 0d 7 (Decimal)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Convert 7 to binary: <code>0111<\/code> (in 4 bits for simplicity).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since it&#8217;s positive, the Two&#8217;s complement representation is the same as the binary representation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>8-bit Two&#8217;s Complement<\/strong>: <code>00000111<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">d. 0d 0 (Decimal)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The number 0 in binary is <code>0<\/code>. For the Two&#8217;s Complement, it remains zero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>8-bit Two&#8217;s Complement<\/strong>: <code>00000000<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">e. 0d 15 (Decimal)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Convert 15 to binary: <code>1111<\/code>. To represent it in Two\u2019s Complement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>8-bit Two&#8217;s Complement<\/strong>: <code>00001111<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">f. 0x C4 (Hexadecimal)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Convert C4 from hexadecimal to binary: <code>11000100<\/code>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since it\u2019s positive, the Two&#8217;s complement representation remains the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>8-bit Two&#8217;s Complement<\/strong>: <code>11000100<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">g. 0x FF (Hexadecimal)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Convert FF from hexadecimal to binary: <code>11111111<\/code>. This is a negative number in Two&#8217;s Complement. For an 8-bit representation, FF represents <code>-1<\/code> in Two\u2019s complement, as the most significant bit (MSB) is 1 (indicating negativity).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>8-bit Two&#8217;s Complement<\/strong>: <code>11111111<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Explanation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Two&#8217;s Complement is used to represent both positive and negative numbers in binary. The key features are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>For positive numbers, the Two&#8217;s complement representation is the same as the regular binary.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For negative numbers, the Two&#8217;s complement is obtained by inverting all bits of the binary representation of the number and adding 1 to the result.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Two&#8217;s complement system allows both positive and negative numbers to be represented efficiently in binary, where the MSB indicates the sign of the number (0 for positive and 1 for negative).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Convert the following to its Two&#8217;s Complement binary representation. If in decimal or hexadecimal, convert to binary first. Use as many bits as you deem necessary. a. 0b 1000 b. 0b 1110 c. 0d 7 d. d 0 e. 0d 15 f. 0x C4 g. 0x FF The correct answer and explanation is: To convert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}