Wednesday, July 15, 2009

practice for bitwise operators

p = 1001 1010
q = 0110 0110
r = 1011 0001

^ means and
v means or
~ means not

Order of operations: parentheses first, otherwise left to right

Find the following values.

a) p v q
b) p ^ r
c) p v ~q
d) ~p v q
e) r ^ ~q
f) ~(r ^ q)

Answers in the comments.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Prof. Hubbard, in question b should the answer been 1001 0000 not 1000 0000. I thought that since both bin numbers 1001 and 1011 both end and begin with 1 that the 1 should stay in an and equation. Also, question e confused me with the answer as well. Should the bin number for q be reversed to 1001 1001 which would make the answer 1001 0001?

Prof. Hubbard said...

Thanks to the anonymous poster above. Here are the corrected answers.

p = 1001 1010
q = 0110 0110
r = 1011 0001

^ means and
v means or
~ means not

Order of operations: parentheses first, not (~) done to the bitstring that immediately follows it, otherwise left to right

Find the following values.

a) p v q
_1001 1010
v0110 0110
__________
=1111 1110


b) p ^ r
_1001 1010
^1011 0001
__________
=1001 0000

c) p v ~q
_1001 1010
v1001 1001
__________
=1001 1011

d) ~p v q
_0110 0101
v0110 0110
__________
=0110 0111

e) r ^ ~q
_1011 0001
^1001 0110
__________
=1001 0000

f) ~(r ^ q)
_0110 0110
^1011 0001
__________
=0010 0000

~(0010 0000)
=1101 1111