Timeline for answer to Two's complement binary form by RobH
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| Mar 18, 2009 at 15:30 | comment | added | Charles Bretana | I believe the real reason was to allow machine language add/subtract algorithms to ignore the sign of the oeprands and simply do a bitwise addition or subtraction, carrying bit when necessary... | |
| Mar 17, 2009 at 17:35 | history | answered | RobH | CC BY-SA 2.5 |