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What is the value of the most significant bit in the bit pattern 01111111?
0111-1111
What is the value and the digit 34.241?
tenths bit
What is the value of 1918 silver 3d bit?
3d
What number representation has the sign as the high order bit and the remaining bits represent the absolute value of the numeric value?
signed magnitude
What is meant by the term low-order bits and high-order bits most significant bit?
The bits in a numeric value like 00000000 00110011 have a decimal value based on the bit position. The most significant bit is the one that has highest decimal value and is the left most bit. The right most bit is the least significant bit. High-order bits are the half of the number of bits that have the highest values, the left most bits in the 16 bit value above The low order bits in this case are the right most bits. This should not be confused with bit placement in memory/cpu registers. Intel/AMD cpus are little edian, meaning that the most significant part is physically right and the lest significant is left most (the bits are not in reverse order). Google for a more detailed info.
