I'm having trouble converting the following two’s complement binary number to decimal
01110000
Step 1: Invert the bits -> 10001111 Step 2: Add 1 to the bit -> 10010000
Therefore, the decimal value is 144
However, I used online converter and it says the decimal value is 112
1 Answer
The value of ...111 0111 0000 (padded with an infinite number of 1's) is -144. The value of ...000 0111 0000 (padded with an infinite number of 0's) is 112. Given the former, one could compute its additive inverse by inverting all the bits (yielding ...000 1000 1111) and adding 1 (yielding ...000 1001 0000, i.e. 144).
