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I was asked this question in an interview.
If you had two numbers represented in the binary form and stored as a string. How would you perform simple addition. This was the easy part. (my solution: run through the shortest one and keep track of carry, repeat for the remaining)
The difficult part was when he asked me:
how would you use hardware to make the process faster.
Any suggestion SO community?
I’d say, convert them to proper integers, and use the hardware (ALU) to perform the addition, then convert the result back to a string if needed.