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Answer:

  0110   =   6 (base 10)
  0111   =   7 (base 10) 
  1101   =  13 (base 10) 

A Longer Example

Here is another example. Observe that the binary addition algorithm is the same algorithm you use with ordinary base ten addition, except now the base two addition table is used for each column.

         
0110 1110
0001 0111
         
       0 
0110 1110
0001 0111
        1
      10 
0110 1110
0001 0111
       01
     110 
0110 1110
0001 0111
      101
   1 110 
0110 1110
0001 0111
     0101
      
  11 110 
0110 1110
0001 0111
   0 0101
 111 110 
0110 1110
0001 0111
  00 0101
1111 110 
0110 1110
0001 0111
 000 0101
01111 110 
 0110 1110
 0001 0111
 1000 0101
 

The carry out of the left column in the final sum can be discarded, in this case.
But in general you must be careful with it. See the following pages.

Check the answer by converting to decimal representation and doing the addition in that base (the same numbers are being added, but now represented in a different way, so the sum is the same.)

  
   01111 110
    0110 1110    =  110 (base 10)
  + 0001 0111    =   23 (base 10)
    1000 0101    =  133 (base 10)

This would be a good time to play with the Binary Addition Calculator applet in Appendix E.


QUESTION 4:

Do the following:

  
    10  
  + 01