a signed number is one that can be negative (have a sign) whereas an unsigned number will only be positive. due to less information, you can double the largest number storable in a signed integer to get the data available in an unsigned integer. However, PHP doesn't have unsigned integers, they're all signed.
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Signed integer is any integer that carries negative sign while unsigned integer is any integer that carries positive sign
Whenever a computer program uses integers - for example, in a game, to store a player's score, but also for many other situations - this will internally be stored as a binary number. This number may be signed or unsigned. Some programming languages, such as Java, only use signed numbers. In other cases, the programmer may decide to use either signed or unsigned numbers, depending on his needs.
111100002 equals 24010 using unsigned notation. It equals -1610 using signed notation.
If the byte represents a signed number, values commonly go from minus 128 to plus 127. If the byte represents an unsigned number, values commonly go from 0 to 255.
For signed 32 bit values: 2^31-1 = 0x7FFFFFFF = 2,147,483,647 For unsigned 32 bit values: 2^32-5 = 0xFFFFFFFB = 4,294,967,291