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Signals and Number Systems

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This chapter covers analog and digital signals, number systems, binary addition and subtraction, floating point representation, ASCII and Unicode, parity bit application, and clock and signal transmission methods.

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  • 30 January 2019

    Chapter 1 On p. 13, section 1.7 In the example (c), the arrow above the word “Sign bit” should be pointing at the furthest bit on the left of the “10100”.

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Elahi, A. (2018). Signals and Number Systems. In: Computer Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66775-1_1

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