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We’ve designed adders that can work with positive numbers. But what about negative numbers? We call systems that can incorporate negative numbers signed representations and consider those that cannot handle negative numbers to be unsigned. The binary system discussed in the previous chapter is more properly called unsigned binary.
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Seiffertt, J. (2017). Signed Numbers. In: Digital Logic for Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56839-3_8
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