Answer to Question #223754 in Software Engineering for Auley

Question

Explain complement arithmetic in the number system and state it's significance in the computation

Answer 1

Complement arithmetic is a concept that has found broad applications in digital systems to simplify the logical operations and arithmetical operations of subtraction. Since computers do not deal with the customary decimal system, but they use Voltage and No Voltage instead, complement arithmetic was one of the keys that allow machines to perform computations today.