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Quiz: Computer Arithmetic

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How hardware adds and multiplies: half and full adders built from logic gates, ripple-carry delay vs carry look-ahead, subtraction with 2's complement, and Booth's multiplication algorithm traced step by step and verified with a Python simulation.

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  1. Question 1

    What is the sum output of a full adder?

  2. Question 2

    Why is a ripple-carry adder slow for many bits?

  3. Question 3

    In Booth's algorithm, what happens when Q0 Q-1 = 1 0?

  4. Question 4

    What does 4-bit ripple_add(9, 9) produce?

  5. Question 5

    Which shift does Booth's algorithm use after each step?