Not really. Are you trying to say that I'm supposed to convert the number to
4bit two's complement and then do the addition? I was thinking that the Lab
was phrased in a sense that it wanted you to deal with 3bit numbers and then
convert to 4bits only after the addition process.
-Kenny

On 5/5/08, Robert Dick <dickrp@northwestern.edu> wrote:
>
> Kenny Tay:
> > Hey all
> > Is it possible to subtract -4 from any number? (we are not able to
> > represent 4 with 3 bits in two's complement) Will we need to design
> > something to detect this?
>
> You have four output bits. Does that solve the problem?
>
> -Robert Dick-
>
>
Received on Sun May 4 21:01:04 2008