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Let Z = X – Y, X, Y, Z are signed magnitude numbers and X, Y are represented in n-bit numbers. To avoid overflow minimum number of bits would require for Z is _________
(a) n-bit
(b) n + 2 bits
(c) n + 1 bits
(d) (n – 1) bits

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