Question: Suppose a computer uses 4-bit one's complement representation. Ignoring overflows, what value will be stored in the variable j after the following pseudocode routine terminates?

Suppose a computer uses 4-bit one's complement representation. Ignoring overflows, what value will be stored in the variable j after the following pseudocode routine terminates?

0 -> j // Store 0 in j 
-3 -> k // Store -3 in k 
while k  0 
 j = j + 1 

k = k - 1

Create a table showing the trace for j and k in decimal and binary. Remember that in one's complement addition, the last carry is added to the sum). Here are the first two lines of the table:

j (binary) k (binary)
0 0000 -3 1100
1 0001 -4 1011

Complete the table using whatever editor you prefer (hand drawn neatly is OK)

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