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With a logical shift the vacated bits are always filled with zeroes. With an arithmetic shift, a left shift will fill vacated bits with zeroes but a right shift fills the vacated bits with a copy of the most significant bit.

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Difference between an arithmetic shift operation and a logical shift operation?

Instead of being filled with all 0s, as in logical shift, when shifting to the right, the leftmost bit (usually the sign bit in signed integer representations) is replicated to fill in all the vacant positions (this is a kind of sign extension).


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Arithmetic logic unit


The unit that performs the arithmetic and logical operations within the processor?

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What is difference between the arithmetic operation and logical operation?

An arithmetic operation combines two numbers while a logical operation uses two logical values which can be true or false. The arithmetic operation uses adding or subtraction to reach the correct answer.


What is a Arithmetic logical unit?

The Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU) is the heart of a CPU. This is what allows the computer to add, subtract, and to perform basic logical operations.


What performs arithmetic comparison and logical operations?

ALU


Performs logical and arithmetic processes?

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Where the result of arithmetic logical operations are stored?

ACCUMULATOR


What do you mean by AL in computer programs?

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Arithmetic operations act on the values of numbers or expressions. Logical operations act on the truth-values of statements or equations.


What are the functions of arithmetic logic unit?

The Arithmetic Logic Unit as suggested by the name carries out the arithmetic calculations of the computer.