14-Complement Multiplication between 9820 and 4823

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I have to multiply 9820 and 4823 in 14- Complement. I know that the result is C7A75060, but I don't know how to get there. My problem occurs when I have to multiply 8 with 4823, I get 2893A, but I know it's wrong. How do I go with this?

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Chris Dodd On

You have to be careful with base-complement to track how many digits you have, so you know which digit contains the (notional) sign. Assuming here you are (trying) to mulitply 4-digit base-14-complement to get an 8-digit base-14-complement, you need to treat to top digits carefully. So the 9 and 4 are sign digits, and 9 denotes a negative number. So the problem is likely in your last step when you try to mulitply 9 with 4823, which you should actually do as -5 * 4823 = -18CB1 = C512D. Combining that with the other partial products you get

 0 * 4823 =    00000
 2 * 4823 =   09246
 8 * 4823 =  2893A
-5 * 4823 = C512D
           ---------
            C7A75060

another equivalent way of doing this is to treat the sign as a (extra) independent digit:

 0 * 4823 =     00000
 2 * 4823 =    09246
 8 * 4823 =   2893A
 9 * 4823 =  2D35D
-1 * 4823 =  95BB
            ---------
             C7A75060