0 votes 0 votes How can we say -2^3 is (1000) in binary? One is 8 and other is -8? Digital Logic made-easy-test-series digital-logic bad-question + – rahul sharma 5 asked Dec 24, 2016 • retagged Jun 4, 2017 by Arjun rahul sharma 5 303 views answer comment Share Follow See 1 comment See all 1 1 comment reply rahul sharma 5 commented Dec 25, 2016 reply Follow Share Why is this marked as bad question? If we try to consider number in only 2's complement then both will be -8 and -16,-8=(-2)^3 ,but -16 is not (-2)^4. Also if we try to consider them in normal representation then it would be 8 and 16 where as 8 cant be represented in (-2)^3.May be I am wrong somewhere 0 votes 0 votes Please log in or register to add a comment.