Closed-Form Expression for the Average Weight of Signed-Digit Representations

  • Authors:
  • Huapeng Wu;M. Anwar Hasan

  • Affiliations:
  • Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago;Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont., Canada

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

In radix-$r$ number system, the minimal weight signed-digit (SD) representation hasminimal 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 $\schmi{n}$, $\schmi{n}\geq 1$.