https://www.webmaster-forums.net/crss/node/1037591 en https://www.webmaster-forums.net/serverside-scripting/half-adder#comment-1215523 <p>You're the man Abhishek. Thanks!</p> Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:09:12 +0000 teammatt3 comment 1215523 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net https://www.webmaster-forums.net/serverside-scripting/half-adder#comment-1215489 <p>That symbol is for bitwise XOR (exclusive OR).</p> <blockquote class="bb-quote-body"><p>Quote: S is the two-bit <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XOR_gate" class="bb-url">XOR</a> of A and B, and C is the AND of A and B.</p></blockquote> <blockquote class="bb-quote-body"><p><strong>teammatt3;215473 wrote:</strong> </p> <blockquote class="bb-quote-body"><p>Quote: Essentially the output of a half adder is the sum of two one-bit numbers, with C being the most significant of these two outputs.</p></blockquote> <p>Does that mean the "sum" is just the biggest number out of the set?</p></blockquote> <p>Not quite. It means there are two outputs, C and S. C is the leftmost digit (most significant) and S is the rightmost digit (least significant).</p> <p>Significance refers to place value of a digit. The digit 1 in 51 is less significant than the digit 1 in 190. In 25, 2 is more significant than 5. (Assuming big-endianness.)</p> <p><img src="https://www.webmaster-forums.net/misc/smileys/smile.png" title="Smiling" alt="Smiling" class="smiley-content" /></p> Tue, 20 Feb 2007 06:30:43 +0000 Abhishek Reddy comment 1215489 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net