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Questions about implementing elementary arithmetic operations on a computer with hardware or algorithms. The numbers are often assumed to be in a binary representation, add the [floating-point] tag for arithmetic operations on numbers in a floating point representation.

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How does the CPU form the binary representation for a number?

Numbers are translated according to the encoding supported by the architecture, usually 2's complement for signed integers, and regular unsigned binary encoding for unsigned integers in modern compute …
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