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Number System and Numeric Complements

This document discusses the method of numeric complements which is a technique to encode positive and negative integers using the same addition algorithm across the entire range. It explains that complements are pairs of numbers whose sum is zero and subtraction can be done by adding the complement.

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Number System and Numeric Complements

This document discusses the method of numeric complements which is a technique to encode positive and negative integers using the same addition algorithm across the entire range. It explains that complements are pairs of numbers whose sum is zero and subtraction can be done by adding the complement.

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NUMBER

SYSTEM AND
NUMERIC
COMPLEMENTS
Jamel D. Pandiin – ACLC_OLC
Introduction

◦ In mathematics and computing, the method of complements is a technique to encode a symmetric range of positive and
negative integers in a way that they can use the same algorithm (hardware) for addition throughout the whole range. For a
given number of places half of the possible representations of numbers encode the positive numbers, the other half represents
their respective additive inverses. The pairs of mutually additive inverse numbers are called complements. Thus subtraction of
any number is implemented by adding its complement. Changing the sign of any number is encoded by generating its
complement, which can be done by a very simple and efficient algorithm.

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