| I need help understanding the rules of subtracting binary numbers when the subtrahend is larger then the minuend. |
| Pad both values to one bit greater than the number of bits in the minuend to accommodate the sign bit and to help avoid alignment mistakes. |
| See whether the circulate of the subtrahend is greater than that of the minuend or not. |
| The minuend is the greater number from which the lesser number is subtracted. The subtrahend is the number that is subtracted from the minuend. |
| The correctness of the principle on which we have proceeded is obvious; we have not taken the whole subtrahend from the minuend at once. |
| If the minuend and subtrahend have the same denominator, subtract the numerator of the subtrahend from the numerator of the minuend to get the numerator. |
