Matt Ginsberg

Assignment 2.1

4.2
a.
binary: 0101101 0110011 0101100 0110001 0110100 0110001 0110101
hexadecimal: 2D 33 2E 31 34 31 35
octal: 055 063 054 061 064 061 065
decimal: 45 51 46 49 52 49 53
b.
hexadecimal: 4E F1 6B F2 F5 F0 4B F1

4.3
Converting the code to hexadecimal, the message reads
54 68 69 73 20 69 73 20 45 41 53 59 21.
Now reading from the table on page 65 of the textbook , the message is This is
EASY!

4.5
a.
X *

b.
The code is self-delimiting. Each combination of 1's and 0's is unique, so that a
sliding pattern matcher can identify each code. A dropped bit during transmission
would make it possible to "lose sync". Suppose the leading 0 in the character 01011
is dropped. If this character is followed by another character that starts with a 0, the
system will read the code as the character as 10110, and this error can propagate.
If a bit gets switched, it is possible to confuse two characters, For example, if the
character code 01101 becomes 01100, it is impossible to distinguish this character
from 01110. This error is self-correcting in the sense that the next character can still
be correctly identified.

4.6
The answer depends upon the system that the student is using, of course, but with
most students working on ASCII-based systems, the expected integer values would
be ORD(A) = 65, ORD(B) = 66, ORD(c) = 99, results taken from the ASCII table. If
the student switches to an EBCDIC-based system, the results would change.

4.7
This is a programming problem. It can be solved most easily with a table. An
algebraic approach is more difficult because the EBCDIC alphabetic values are split
up differently than the ASCII codes.

5.9
a.
11001101101 = 1 + 4 + 8 + 32 + 64 + 512 + 1024 = 1645
111010111011 = -101000101 = - (1 + 4 + 64 + 256) = -325
(1)010100101000 = 8 + 32 + 256 + 1024 = 1320

b.
101011001100 = - 010100110100 = -1332
111111111100 = - 100 = - 4
(1)101011001000 = - 010100111000 = -1336

5.10
The largest positive four-digit 10's complement number is 4999, therefore the
largest positive digit that can be added to 2468 is 4999 - 2468 = 2531.

5.11
In 12's complement base 12, the midpoint value is 6, therefore any number that
starts with 6, 7, 8, 9, A, or B is negative, otherwise the number is positive

5.17
a.
123.57 1015 = 1.2357 1017. With exponent excess-49, the result is 0661236.

b.
The smallest storable number is represented by 0000001 = 0.001 10^-49