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22.
The greatest negative number which can be stored is 8 bit computer using 2's complement arithmetic is
- 256
- 128
- 255
- 127
Answer: Option
Explanation:

The largest negative number is 1000 0000 = -128.

Discussion:
16 comments Page 1 of 2.

Geetha adainjan said:   1 decade ago
Why 1111 1111= -255 not came here? Please clarify it.

Pratik said:   1 decade ago
It is not largest number.

Rekha.v said:   1 decade ago
The greatest negative number which you can represent using N bit (of course signed) could be -2^(N-1).

So for 8 bit 2^7 = -128.

Rekha.v said:   1 decade ago
The greatest negative number which you can represent using N bit (of course signed) could be -2^(N-1).

So for 8 bit 2^7 = -128.

Sudipta Majumder said:   1 decade ago
Greatest positive number = 01111111.

Taking 2's complement to get greatest negative number that is = 10000001.

Now put the formula and we get = -127.

Sunanda said:   9 years ago
Greatest positive number is 255, right?

Sandy said:   9 years ago
No, the largest positive no is 127.

132,64,32,16,8,4,2,1.
0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1.

Shubham said:   8 years ago
For 2's compliment.

The range is -(2^n-1) to +((2^n-1)-1) and this is different in the case of 1's and signed representation.

Divyesh Makwana said:   8 years ago
The largest Negative number in 8 bit is 01111111 and 2's complement of it in 10000000 which is -127.

Pavan said:   7 years ago
In 8bit, 11111111 is the largest right?


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