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An N-bit integer holds 2N different values.

For an unsigned integer, the range of values is 0..2N-1 thus.

For a signed integer using 2s complement, the range is -2N-1..+2N-1-1.

Therefore, the largest positive number that can be stored using 8 bits is 255.

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