binary excess notation - binary

i'm studying computer science and i can't figure something out of my own.
There is this number : -233 using 10 bit representation
What i need to do is to represent with excess notation the number (2^n-1)
So, i came up with:
1 base 10 = 0000000001
2^10-1 = 1000000000
1 base 10 in my notation = 1000000001
So, my -256 is 0000000001
And my 255 is 1111111110
What is the -233 number following this notation?
The result on the book is 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1
My result: 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1
Hope you guys can help me.

I think you were on the right path, but just did a small error.
As I was not familiar with the notation, I had to take a look at it first. It seems like K is usually chosen as 2^(n-1) = 2^9 = 512. Which means 00 0000 0000 = -512 and 11 1111 1111 = 511. I don't know how you get -256, maybe there is your error.
Now, from -512 (00 0000 0000) to -233 there is a difference of 279 (01 0001 0111). This seems to be the result of your example.
For easier construction you can do this (assuming K = 2^(n-1)) - example number -12:
Use the binary representation of the positive value (12). 00 0000 1100
Add K (2^(n-1)): 10 0000 1100
Invert all bits: 01 1111 0011
Add 1 (because of the zero value): 01 1111 0100

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Is there any way of inicializing a variable with a binary value in MIPS?

I need to initialize an register with an specific decimal value in order to extract the bits of another register (by doing this). The only problem is, since I need to do an andoperation with a very large decimal, it turns out to be very difficult to convert a binary number into a decimal number without a calculator to perform this operation.
So I am interested to know if there is any way of initializing a register with a binary value directly
If your assembler/simulator does not allow you to write binary constants but it allows you to write hexadecimal ones then you may easily encode a binary number in hexadecimal.
Starting from the least significand bit, every 4 bits you encode its hexadecimal value using the following table:
0000 - 0
0001 - 1
0010 - 2
0011 - 3
0100 - 4
0101 - 5
0110 - 6
0111 - 7
1000 - 8
1001 - 9
1010 - A
1011 - B
1100 - C
1101 - D
1110 - E
1111 - F
If the original binary number does not have a multiple of 4 bits you fill the most significand bits to 0 until it fills the last packet.
For example, you may encode this words in hexadecimal converting them from binary numbers:
myvar: .word 0x1234 # binary 1 0010 0011 0100
other: .word 0xCAFEBABE # binary 1100 1010 1111 1110 1011 1010 1011 1110

subtracting two's complement for beginner

Guys need some help to solve a question. I am trying to learning Complement notation which is in my bca course. Recently i finished the 2's complement notation chapter, ans stuck at question.
Can some one describe me that how to subtract
a)10 from 14
b)14 from 10
using 2's complement notation.
What i have done is
Above numbers in binary.
10=1010
14=1110
two's complement of the two numbers.
1010=>0101+1=0110
1110=>1110+1=1111
Now i am stuck how will i solve the
a)Subtraction of 10 from 14
b)Subtraction of 14 from 10
Please use descriptive way so i can understand each step for both subtraction. Thanks in advance.
At last, we have found the solution
10 in binary 00001010
2's complement of 10 is 0110
14 in binary 00001110
2's complement of 14 is 0010
4 in binary 0000 0100
2's complement of 4 is 1111 1100
2's Complement Subtraction=>
10 - 14 = (-4) 0000 1010 = +10
+ 1111 0010 = -14
1111 1100 = -4
2's Complement Addition=>
14 - 10 = (+4) 0000 1110 = +14
+ 1111 0110 = -10
10000 0100 = +4
Once you are done with 2' complement,
You just need to add it.
Subtraction of 14 from 10
1010=>0101+1=0110 [This means -10]
14 + (-10)
1110
+
0110
0100 [Do not worry about the carry]
Subtraction of 10 from 14
10=1010 14=1110
2's complement of 1110 is 0010
1 0 1 0 + 0 0 1 0 = 1 1 0 0
2's complement of 1100 is 0100
10 - 14 = -4
1010 - 1110 =0100

resulting sum in binary 16

I have answered the question but i could not understand the part where its says get the resulting sum in 16-bit binary, check your answer by converting the sum into decimal.
1.Add ‘A’ and ‘B’ in binary to get the resulting sum in 16-bit binary, check your answer by converting the sum into decimal.
Decimal number = 58927634
A= 5892 to Binary 1011 1000 0010 0
B= 7634 to Binary 1110 1110 1001 0
a + b = 11010011010110
thanks alot
Regards
Let me explain:
A = 00005892
B = 00007634
in base 10 number system, with 8 decimals to represent it.
and...
A = 0001 0111 0000 0100
B = 0001 1101 1101 0010
in base 2 number system, with 16 bits to represent it.
I hope it makes sense to you now.
And the sum of A and B, in base 2 number system with 16 bits to represent it....
0011 0100 1101 0110
although, we needed just 14 bits....
Your answer is correct, but its width is 14 bits long.

The binary equivalent of the decimal number 104

Ok,so I know that the binary equivalent of 104 is 1101000.
10=1010
4=0100
so , 104=1101000 (how to get this??how these both mix together and get this binary?)
And from the example here...
the octets from "hellohello" are E8 32 9B FD 46 97 D9 EC 37.
This bit is inserted to the left which yields 1 + 1101000 = 11101000 ("E8").
I still understand this part , but how to convert 11101000 to E8?
I'm so sorry for all these noob questions , I just learn it yesterday , I googled and search for a whole day but still not really understand the concept...
Thank you.
Ok,so I know that the binary equivalent of 104 is 1101000.
10=1010
4=0100
You can't break apart a number like 104 into 10 and 4 when changing bases. You need to look at the number 104 in its entirety. Start with a table of bit positions and their decimal equivalents:
1 1
2 10
4 100
8 1000
16 10000
32 100000
64 1000000
128 10000000
Look up the largest decimal number that is still smaller than your input number: 104 -- it is 64. Write that down:
1000000
Subtract 64 from 104: 104-64=40. Repeat the table lookup with 40 (32 in this case), and write down the corresponding bit pattern below the first one -- aligning the lowest-bit on the furthest right:
1000000
100000
Repeat with 40-32=8:
1000000
100000
1000
Since there's nothing left over after the 8, you're finished here. Sum those three numbers:
1101000
That's the binary representation of 104.
To convert 1101000 into hexadecimal we can use a little trick, very similar to your attempt to use 10 and 4, to build the hex version from the binary version without much work -- look at groups of four bits at a time. This trick works because four bits of base 2 representation completely represent the range of options of base 16 representations:
Bin Dec Hex
0000 0 0
0001 1 1
0010 2 2
0011 3 3
0100 4 4
0101 5 5
0110 6 6
0111 7 7
1000 8 8
1001 9 9
1010 10 A
1011 11 B
1100 12 C
1101 13 D
1110 14 E
1111 15 F
The first group of four bits, (insert enough leading 0 to pad it to four
bits) 0110 is 6 decimal, 6 hex; the second group of four bits, 1000 is
8 decimal, 8 hexadecimal, so 0x68 is the hex representation of 104.
I think you are making some confusions:
104 decimal is 1101000 which is not formed by two groups splitting 104 into 10 and 4.
The exception is for hex numbers that can be formed by two groups 4 binary numbers (2^4 = 16).
So 111010000 = E8 translates into 1110 = E and 8 = 10000. 1110 (binary) would be 14 (decimal) and equivalent of E (hex).
Hex numbers go from 0 to 15 (decimal) where:
10 (decimal) = A (hex)
11(decimal) = B(hex)
...
15(decimal) = F(hex)
What you're missing here is the general formula for digital numbers.
104 = 1*10^2 + 0*10^1 + 4*10^0
Similarly,
0100b = 0*2^3 + 1*2^2 + 0*2^1 + 0*0^0
And for a hexidecimal number, the letters A-F stand for the numbers 10-15. So,
E8 = 14*16^1 + 8*16^0
As you go from right to left, each digit represents the coefficient of the next higher power of the base (also called the radix).
In programming, if you have an integer value (in the internal format of the computer, probably binary, but it isn't relevant), you can extract the right most digit with the modulus operation.
x = 104
x % 10 #yields 4, the "ones" place
And then you can get "all but" the rightmost digit with integer division (integer division discards the remainder which we no longer need).
x = x / 10 #yields 10
x % 10 #now yields 0, the "tens" place
x = x / 10 #yields 1
x % 10 #now yields 1, the "hundreds" place
So if you do modulus and integer division in a loop (stopping when x == 0), you can output a number in any base.
This is basic arithmetic. See binary numeral system & radix wikipedia entries.

Help understanding Binary Representation for Integers?

I'm trying to understand these illustrations but there are parts which I don't understand:
"But the computer had to count backwards for the negative numbers"
Why does adding a 1 to the front of a binary mean the computer has to count backwards?
"Flip the bits and add 1!"
What does that mean add 1?
woops: http://csillustrated.berkeley.edu/PDFs/integer-representations.pdf
This may be easiest to show by example. Here are the numbers from -4 to 4 represented in binary:
4 0000 0100
3 0000 0011
2 0000 0010
1 0000 0001
0 0000 0000
-1 1111 1111
-2 1111 1110
-3 1111 1101
-4 1111 1100
So say we want to go from 1 to -1. We first flip all the bits of 1
1 0000 0001
flip bits
-----------
1111 1110
Then we add a 1:
1111 1110
+ 1
-----------
1111 1111
We now have -1.
I'm not seeing the illustrations, but you're probably talking about Two's complement representation. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two's_complement)
Why does adding a 1 to the front mean the computer has to count backwards?
Due to how carrying works, FFFFFFFFF + 1 == 0
and 0 - 1 == FFFFFFFF. All the bits get flipped, including the first bit.
If you simply define the negative numbers as those starting with a 1 bit (80000000 - FFFFFFFF) then you get a nice uniform behavior for addition with a natural overflow.
Flip the bits and add 1: in 2's complement, this negates a number
~x+1 == -x; // always true
What you're talking about is called signed integers.