Computer organization and
architecture
Chapter 2:
Number Systems and Codes
Number system and computer code
We enter the data into a computer or review the output data from a
computer using the letter of alphabet, various special symbols, and the
numerals in the form of decimal number system.
But since computer is an electronic device, which understands electrical
flow (signal), there is no letter, symbol or number inside the computer.
Computer works only with binary numbers
Units of Data Representation
units arranged from the smallest to the largest, the units are called bit, byte, and word.
These units are based on the binary number system.
1. BIT: only two possible states 0 or 1;
2. BYTE: known as the basic “unit of data representation” in a computer system.
The commonly used byte contains 8 bits (1byte=8bits)
3. Nibble: Group of 4 continuous bits.
4. Word consists of 32 bits, which is equal to 4 bytes (1word=32bits)
We say that a computer is an 8-bit, a 16 bit, a 32 bit or a 64 bit computer to indicate
that the amount of data it can process at a time.
The larger the word length a computer has the more powerful and faster it is.
number system
is a set of codes which are given to distinct values or quantities.
Using those assigned codes (symbols), we will 'count’.
The symbols are called digits.
Generally, a number system is characterized by:
A. Its base (radix) :-is the number of digits that are included in the
number system.
B. Its digits.
Generally, number system can be categorized in to two:
1. Non-positional number system
2. positional number system
Non- positional vs positional number systems
In early days, human beings counted on fingers. When ten fingers were not
adequate, stones, or sticks were used to indicate values.
This method of counting uses an additive approach or the non – positional number
system.
symbols such as I for 1, II for 2, III for 3, etc are used.
Each symbol represents the same value regardless of its position in the number.
difficult to perform arithmetic with such a number system, positional number
systems were developed.
In a positional number system,
there are only a few symbols called digits,
symbols represent different values depending on the position they occupy in the number.
various number systems
• There are various positional number systems – the decimal, binary, octal,
hexadecimal.
A. The Decimal Number System:-
The number system that we use in our day – to – day life.
It is base ten.
have ten different digits or symbols (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9).
Example
integer part:- (8762)10 = (8*) + (7* ) + (6* ) + (2* )
fractional part:- (0.475)10= (4* ) + (7* ) + (5* )
various number systems ……cont’d
B. Binary number system
The most popular form which is understood by the computer.
Its radix is 2.
It uses two digits i.e. 0 & 1.
Sometimes it is also called base-two system.
Example: 1011,100,1,0.11 etc
Why Binary representation is used in computers?
Computer circuits are designed on the basis of two bits 0 & 1. The digital electronic
circuits have only two possible states. Due to this feature of electronic circuits, a
computer can understand information composed of only 0s and 1s i.e. all the internal
operations/manipulations are performed in binary form.
The binary system simplifies the design of the circuits, reduces the cost and improves
the reliability.
Every operation that can be done in decimal system can also be done in binary.
various number systems ……cont’d
Octal and hexa decimal number system reading assignment
Converting From One Number System to Another
A. Conversion of decimal numbers into any other number systems
A decimal number might have two parts: integral and fractional part
For the integer part, the following procedure is followed:
1. Divide the integral part by the base of the target number system and note the remainder.
2. Divide the quotient of the previous division by the target base and note the remainder.
3. Repeat step 2 till the quotient becomes 0.
4. Arrange the remainders in an order starting with the last division.
5. The number obtained in step 4 is the integer part of the desired number
For the fraction part, the following procedures are followed:
6. Multiply the fraction part by the base of the system and note the integer part.
7. Multiply the fraction part of the previous result by the base and note the integer part.
8. Repeat step 2 till the fraction part of the result is zero or till the required accuracy
9. Arrange the integer parts in the order starting with first multiplication.
10. The number obtained in step 4 is the fraction part of the desired number.
Example1 integer part
Decimal to Binary Decimal to Octal Decimal to Hexadecimal
2510 =? 2 95210 =? 8 42810 = ?16
Q R Q R Q R
25 952 428
12 1190 26
6 3 1 14 7 0 1 0 1
3 1 0 71 6 `
1 0 1 1 =1 10 12
=1 A C 16
= 110012 =16708
Example 2 fractional part (0.68)10 = (?)2
Fractional part conversion -
Process Product Decimal part Integer part
0.68 × 2 1.36 .36 1 MSD
0.36 × 2 0.72 .72 0
0.72 × 2 1.44 .44 1 º (10101)2
0.44 × 2 0.88 .88 0
0.88 × 2 1.76 .76 1 LSD
B. Conversion of other systems into decimal number system
Integer Part Conversion
1. Determine the positional value of each digit.
2. Multiply the positional value by the digits in the corresponding columns.
3. Sum the products obtained in step 2. The total is the equivalent value in
decimal.
Fractional Part Conversion
1. For converting a fraction of binary system into decimal the following steps
should be followed:
2. Multiply each digit of binary from left to right by , , and .... respectively.
3. Simplify the arithmetic expression and add them together to find the
required fraction of decimal system.
4. Now by combining both the converted parts we can find the decimal
equivalent of the binary number.
example
Example 1. Convert binary (11101101.10101)2 to decimal form.
Solution
Integer part – 11101101
Fractional part – 10101
Conversion of integer part :
1×27 + 1×26 + 1×25 + 0×24 + 1×23 + 1×22 + 0×21 + 1×20
1×128 + 1×64 + 1×32 + 0×16 + 1×8 + 1×4 + 0×2 + 1×1
128 + 64 + 32 + 0 + 8 + 4 + 0 + 1
(237)10
Conversion of fractional part:
Starting from left to right each bit is multiplied by
2–1, 2–2, 2–3, 2–4...... we find
1 0 1 0 1
———–––––––––
1×2–1 + 0×2–2 + 1×2–3 + 0×2–4 + 1×2–5
.50 + 0 + .125 + 0 + .03125 = (.65625)10
By combining both the resultant values we get the final decimal equivalent value (237.65625)10
• Other Base to Other Base??????????????
Integer Representation
Computers use a fixed number of bits to represent an integer.
The commonly-used bit-lengths for integers are 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit or 64-bit.
Besides bit-lengths, there are two representation schemes for integers:
Unsigned Integers: can represent zero and positive integers.
Signed Integers: can represent zero, positive and negative integers.
Three representation schemes had been proposed for signed integers:
a) Sign-Magnitude representation
b) 1's Complement representation
c) 2's Complement representation
n-bit Sign Integers in Sign-Magnitude Representation
the sign bit is set to ‘1’ if negative and cleared to ‘0’ if positive:
example Suppose that n=8bit
6 00000110 or -6 10000110 (2’s??)
+13 00001101 + +13 00001101
19 00010011 +7 10010011 ( = -19)
n-bit Sign Integers in 1's Complement Representation
can be found by reversing the bits
Example:
Example 1: Suppose that n=8 and the binary representation 1 000 0001B.
Sign bit is 1 ⇒ negative
Absolute value is the complement of 000 0001B, i.e., 111 1110B = 126D
n-bit Sign Integers in 2's Complement Representation
The 2s complement representation can be found by reversing the bits
(into 1s complement) and then adding 1== 1s complement + 1.
Example; what is the 2’s complement of example 1???
Floating-Point Number
Representation
How to represent very large numbers and very tiny numbers in computer???
A floating-point number can represent a very large (1.23×10^88) or a very small
(1.23×10^-88) value.
In digital computers, floating-point number consist of three parts: a sign bit, an
exponent part (representing the exponent on a power of 2), and a fractional part
called a significand (mantissa).
in the form of F×r^E.
Decimal numbers use radix of 10 (F×10^E); while binary numbers use
radix of 2 (F×2^E).
Normalized Floating Representation
• It has been noted that a number may have more than one floating point representations.
• In order to have unique representation of non-zero numbers a normalized floating point
representation is used.
• A normalized form is used for storing a floating-point number in memory.
• A normalized form is a floating-point representation where the leftmost bit of the significand will
always be a 1.
• Example: Internal representation of (10.25)10
• (10.25)10 = (1010.01) 2 (Un-normalized form)
= (1010.01) 2 x .
= (101.001) 2 x
.
. :
= (0.101001) 2 x (Normalized form)
= (0.0101001) 2 x (Un-normalized form)
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