ENGIN 112

Intro to Electrical and Computer Engineering

Lecture 2

Number Systems

Russell Tessier
KEB 309 G
[email protected]

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 Overview

° The design of computers

• It all starts with numbers
• Building circuits
• Building computing machines

° Digital systems
° Understanding decimal numbers
° Binary and octal numbers
• The basis of computers!

° Conversion between different number systems

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 Digital Computer Systems

° Digital systems consider discrete amounts of data.

° Examples
• 26 letters in the alphabet
• 10 decimal digits

° Larger quantities can be built from discrete values:

• Words made of letters
• Numbers made of decimal digits (e.g. 239875.32)

° Computers operate on binary values (0 and 1)

° Easy to represent binary values electrically
• Voltages and currents.
• Can be implemented using circuits
• Create the building blocks of modern computers

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 Understanding Decimal Numbers

° Decimal numbers are made of decimal digits:

(0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9)
° But how many items does a decimal number
represent?
• 8653 = 8x103 + 6x102 + 5x101 + 3x100

° What about fractions?

• 97654.35 = 9x104 + 7x103 + 6x102 + 5x101 + 4x100 + 3x10-1 + 5x10-2
• In formal notation -> (97654.35)10

° Why do we use 10 digits, anyway?

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 Understanding Octal Numbers

° Octal numbers are made of octal digits:

(0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7)
° How many items does an octal number represent?
• (4536)8 = 4x83 + 5x82 + 3x81 + 6x80 = (1362)10

° What about fractions?

• (465.27)8 = 4x82 + 6x81 + 5x80 + 2x8-1 + 7x8-2

° Octal numbers don’t use digits 8 or 9

° Who would use octal number, anyway?

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 Understanding Binary Numbers

° Binary numbers are made of binary digits (bits):

• 0 and 1

° How many items does an binary number represent?

• (1011)2 = 1x23 + 0x22 + 1x21 + 1x20 = (11)10

° What about fractions?

• (110.10)2 = 1x22 + 1x21 + 0x20 + 1x2-1 + 0x2-2

° Groups of eight bits are called a byte

• (11001001) 2

° Groups of four bits are called a nibble.

• (1101) 2

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 Why Use Binary Numbers?

° Easy to represent 0 and 1 using

electrical values.
° Possible to tolerate noise.
° Easy to transmit data
° Easy to build binary circuits.

AND Gate

1
0
0

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 Conversion Between Number Bases

Octal(base 8)

Decimal(base 10) Binary(base 2)

Hexadecimal
(base16)
° Learn to convert between bases.
° Already demonstrated how to convert
from binary to decimal.
° Hexadecimal described in next
lecture.

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 Convert an Integer from Decimal to Another Base

For each digit position:

1. Divide decimal number by the base (e.g. 2)
2. The remainder is the lowest-order digit
3. Repeat first two steps until no divisor remains.

Example for (13)10:

Integer Remainder Coefficient
Quotient
13/2 = 6 + ½ a0 = 1
6/2 = 3 + 0 a1 = 0
3/2 = 1 + ½ a2 = 1
1/2 = 0 + ½ a3 = 1

Answer (13)10 = (a3 a2 a1 a0)2 = (1101)2

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 Convert an Fraction from Decimal to Another Base

For each digit position:

1. Multiply decimal number by the base (e.g. 2)
2. The integer is the highest-order digit
3. Repeat first two steps until fraction becomes
zero.
Example for (0.625)10:
Integer Fraction Coefficient

0.625 x 2 = 1 + 0.25 a-1 = 1

0.250 x 2 = 0 + 0.50 a-2 = 0
0.500 x 2 = 1 + 0 a-3 = 1

Answer (0.625)10 = (0.a-1 a-2 a-3 )2 = (0.101)2

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 The Growth of Binary Numbers
n 2n n 2n
0 20=1 8 28=256
1 21=2 9 29=512

2 22=4 10 210=1024

3 23=8 11 211=2048

4 24=16 12 212=4096

5 25=32 20 220=1M
Mega

6 26=64 30 230=1G Giga

7 27=128 40 240=1T Tera

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 Binary Addition

° Binary addition is very simple.

° This is best shown in an example of adding two
binary numbers…

1 1 1 1
1 1 carries
1
1 1 1 0 1
+ 1 0 1 1 1
---------------------
1 0 1 0 1 0 0

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 Binary Subtraction

° We can also perform subtraction (with borrows in place of

carries).
° Let’s subtract (10111)2 from (1001101)2…

1 10 borrows
0 10 10 0 0 10

1 0
0 1 1 0 1
- 1 0 1 1 1
------------------------
1 1 0 1 1 0

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 Binary Multiplication

° Binary multiplication is much the same as decimal

multiplication, except that the multiplication
operations are much simpler…

1 0 1 1 1
X 1 0 1 0
-----------------------
0 0 0 0 0
1 0 1 1 1
0 0 0 0 0
1 0 1 1 1
-----------------------
1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0

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 Convert an Integer from Decimal to Octal

For each digit position:

1. Divide decimal number by the base (8)
2. The remainder is the lowest-order digit
3. Repeat first two steps until no divisor remains.

Example for (175) 10:

Integer Remainder Coefficient
Quotient
175/8 = 21 + 7/8 a0 = 7
21/8 = 2 + 5/8 a1 = 5
2/8 = 0 + 2/8 a2 = 2

Answer (175)10 = (a2 a1 a0)2 = (257)8

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 Convert an Fraction from Decimal to Octal

For each digit position:

1. Multiply decimal number by the base (e.g. 8)
2. The integer is the highest-order digit
3. Repeat first two steps until fraction becomes
zero.
Example for (0.3125)10:
Integer Fraction Coefficient

0.3125 x 8 = 2 + 5 a-1 = 2
0.5000 x 8 = 4 + 0 a-2 = 4

Answer (0.3125)10 = (0.24)8

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 Summary

° Binary numbers are made of binary digits (bits)

° Binary and octal number systems
° Conversion between number systems
° Addition, subtraction, and multiplication in binary

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