Publication 1999 Issue No. 8 - August Abstract - Closed-Form Expression for the Average Weight of Signed-Digit Representations
Closed-Form Expression for the Average Weight of Signed-Digit Representations
August 1999 (vol. 48 no. 8)
pp. 848-851
 ASCII Text x Huapeng Wu, M. Anwar Hasan, "Closed-Form Expression for the Average Weight of Signed-Digit Representations," IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 48, no. 8, pp. 848-851, August, 1999.
 BibTex x @article{ 10.1109/12.795126,author = {Huapeng Wu and M. Anwar Hasan},title = {Closed-Form Expression for the Average Weight of Signed-Digit Representations},journal ={IEEE Transactions on Computers},volume = {48},number = {8},issn = {0018-9340},year = {1999},pages = {848-851},doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/12.795126},publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},}
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Abstract—In radix-$r$ number system, the minimal weight signed-digit (SD) representation has minimal number of nonzero signed-digits which belong to the set $\{\pm{1},\pm{2},\ldots,\pm{(r-1)}\}$. In this article, we derive closed form expressions for the average number of nonzero digits in the minimal weight SD representation and for the average length of the canonical SD representation, a special case of the minimal weight SD form, of a positive integer whose radix-$r$ form is of length $\schmi{n}$, $\schmi{n}\geq 1$.

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Index Terms:
Radix-$r$ number system, minimal weight signed-digit representation, canonical signed-digit representation.
Citation:
Huapeng Wu, M. Anwar Hasan, "Closed-Form Expression for the Average Weight of Signed-Digit Representations," IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 48, no. 8, pp. 848-851, Aug. 1999, doi:10.1109/12.795126