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Binary: Plusses & Minuses (Why We Use Two's Complement) - Computerphile

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Professor Dave Brailsford explains how signed binary numbers work and why computer systems use two's complement.

Negative Binary Numbers - you may have heard of 'signed' numbers, but do you know how they work? Professor Brailsford explains not just how, but why we use the systems we do. Binary Addition: youtu.be/WN8i5cwjkSE Most Difficult Program to Compute?: youtu.be/i7sm9dzFtEI Floating Point Numbers: youtu.be/PZRI1IfStY0 facebook.com/computerphile twitter.com/computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: bit.ly/nottscomputer Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. More at bradyharan.com

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