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can any of you mans do this for me? thanx in advance. really appreciate it if you could...

A2 Computing

Assignment for Module 4

Assignment 1
Assignment is due in on Thursday 18th October 2001


Binary Arithmetic

1. Convert the following numbers to binary using twos complement representation

9 -6 -99

2. Assuming 10 bits represent a binary number, with the first being a sign bit (twos
complement). Convert the following binary digits to decimal

000011101
001001011
110001111

3. Normalise the following numbers, which are held with a 10-bit mantissa and
6-bit exponent

0 000000110 000111
0 000010111 000110
1 111110111 000000
1 111111010 000011

4. the binary number 1010 1011 0111 can be represented in a number of different
ways

a. State its hexadecimal form
b. State its value in denary if it represents

(i) an unsigned binary digit
(ii) a twos complement floating point number with an eight bit mantissa
followed by a 4-bit exponent

Whooo Style! wrote:
> as soon as I do something slightly advanced everyone wants to know how you do it.

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That brings back memories!

I remeber when I first learnt how to alter the auto-correct function on Microsoft Word.....

Where people would type a word such as "the" and it would automatically change to "poo" or something similar!

Being at school, most of the people didnt have a clue what was happening, and were wondering why there words were changing without them typing!

(Arent I mean!)

:-) <----- Evil Smile!

no thanks!

I am completly computer literate thanks!

My problem is I know i want to go into an IT career, but doing what I dont know. I think computing would be my best bet really. I don't really know much about programming so I'd be really interested to find out about that.

I'm doing IT for GCSE at the moment (final year) I got an A* in my mocks and so far my cousework is at a similar level. It really annoys me that I spend half the lesson helping other people and as soon as I do something slightly advanced everyone wants to know how you do it.

There is an IT course, but thats for people that have trouble working Microsoft Word and Excel.....

If youre in that category, I suggest you take IT A-Level! :-D

I like the idea of doing it, but i'm not sure where i'd have to go. i'm pretty certain my sixth form wont do it and thats where i'd like to go ideally.

Dav1d wrote:
Well I wouldnt do
> that for £1.50 an hour!

Neither would I.

Well Ive only just started it this year.....

But out of the subjects I took it is one of the best ones...

Some of it is hard to leran, and theory can get a bit boring, but making a program using a piece of code and getting it to work is quite rewarding!

We use this program called "Pascal" and at the moment we are doing basic stuff like asking the user to enter their name etc.!

Hopefully next year we will be making something worthwhile!

I want to do computing for A level and couldnt find out anything about it. Some one explain exactly what it is please.

Tiltawhirl wrote:
> Yeah I know I get payed for making tea and coffee and sitting on a computer smoking, what a terrible job I have.

Well I wouldnt do that for £1.50 an hour!

Dav1d wrote:
> Tiltawhirl wrote:
> Why the programs a pile of crap, how is that gonna help
> me in anyway.

Especially in a printing factory! :-P

Yeah I know I get payed for making tea and coffee and sitting on a computer smoking, what a terrible job I have.

Tiltawhirl wrote:
> Why the programs a pile of crap, how is that gonna help me in anyway.

Especially in a printing factory! :-P