Addition and Subtraction in Binary

Arithmetic operations

One of the most useful and powerful aspects of having a number system is the ability to manipulate two or more numbers together using mathematical operations. We make extensive use of these operations with decimal numbers, when we add, subtract, multiply and divide them. You might be wondering how these operations extend to the binary number system. Let’s have a look at these operations as they relate to binary, both in this lesson and in the rest of this chapter.