twos compliment

[LV-rookie]

How do you convert a hexidecimal I16 number to it's 2's complimnet number?

thanks

[mikeporter]

I realize that it is new and not many people have heard of it, but there is this wonderful new service called "Wikipedia" where you can find all sorts of interesting information on two's-complement, including this jem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two%27s_complement

Mike..

[Gregory]

Oh my, number two, you sure are looking even today!

[altenbach]

Negative signed integers are stored as two's complement (not compliment, thank you!), no need for conversions.

[LV-rookie]

I just realized that I asked my question wrong....

I have a 2's complement hexadecimal number and I want to convert that over to a normal hexidecimal number.

I tried the following but I get the following error:

[altenbach]

• Define "normal".
• You cannot wire an array to a conditional terminal.

[LV-rookie]

The data that  I am receivng is hexidecimal 2's complement and what I mean by a normal hexadecimal number is a hexidecimal number without the sign bit. Do I need to remove the sign bit (8000h if it is a negative #)  and subtract 1?

If  I knew how to do all these calculations to a cluster of all I16 numbers and then place these into a string to display on my front panel, then  

I might not need use an array at all.

Thanks for the advice

[altenbach]

It is still not clear. So should the output be a 15bit positive integer that is the absolute value of the original? Why not just take the absolute value then?

[LV-rookie]

A 15bit positive integer that is the absolute value of the original sounds good to me...

How do  I do that?

[altenbach]

Look in the numeric palette....