Invitation to Computer Science 8th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 1337561916
ISBN 13: 978-1-33756-191-4

Chapter 4 - Exercises - Page 217: 7

Answer

Overflow error

Work Step by Step

In sign/magnitude notation the sign bit will take one bit so only 7 bits will remain but the maximum magnitude represented by 7 bits will be 127 which is smaller than 200 so we cannot represent -200 using 8 bits. This is an overflow error: the number exceeds the representable range of the given format.
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