Abstract

Because most optical digital computers use only non-negative quantities, it is of great interest to find an efficient way to represent real numbers. For radix 2 (binary) numbers the twos complement method requires only one extra digit beyond that needed for non-negative numbers. We introduce here an arbitrary radix generalization.

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