Computer Science GCSE
Discarded carry
What Discarded carry means in Computer Science GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Discarded carry
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Reference: OCR
The carry out of the eighth bit has a place value of 256, so discarding it makes the stored result incorrect, specifically 256 less than the true sum.
Topics that use Discarded carry
- Data storage (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- Analogue to digital conversion
- Base 16 place value
- Bit depth
- Character set
- Colour depth
- Duration
- File size
- File size calculation
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