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Computing an Internet checksum

Consider the two 16-bit words (shown in binary) below. Recall that to compute the Internet checksum of a set of 16-bit words, we compute the one's complement sum [1] of the two words. That is, we add the two numbers together, making sure that any carry into the 17th bit of this initial sum is added back into the 1's place of the resulting sum); we then take the one's complement of the result. Compute the Internet checksum value for these two 16-bit words:


   00111011   10000000      this binary number is 15232 decimal (base 10)

   00001000   01110011      this binary number is 2163 decimal (base 10)



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1. What is the sum of these two 16 bit numbers? Don't put any spaces in your answer

2. Using the sum from question 1, what is the checksum? Don't put any spaces in your answer




Solution


1. The sum of 00111011 10000000 and 00001000 01110011 = 01000011   11110011

2. The internet checksum is the one's complement of the sum: 01000011   11110011 = 10111100   00001100



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The answer was: 01000011   11110011

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The answer was: 10111100   00001100

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