HELP - Negative in Octal And HexaDecimal

Saurabh Sahay

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posted 20 years ago

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Hi
Can anyone please mention the basics of how to represent negative numbers in Octal and Hexadecimal Format.
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Tom Blough

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posted 20 years ago

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Octal and Hex are just shorthand representations of binary numbers. Research "twos complement" for representing binary numbers.

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