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How are negative numbers stored in a coprocessor?(a) 1’s complement(b) 2’s complement(c) decimal(d) grayThis question was posed to me in an international level competition.I would like to ask this question from Coprocessor of Intel in chapter Embedded Processors of Embedded Systems

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Right choice is (b) 2’s complement

Explanation: In a COPROCESSOR, negative NUMBERS are stored in 2’s complement with its leftmost sign bit of 1 WHEREAS positive numbers are stored in the form of TRUE value with its leftmost sign bit of 0.



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