Question

Consider a computer that uses 6 bits to represent integers: 1 bit for the sign and 5 bits for the actual number. What's the largest positive integer it can represent?

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Question:

What is the largest Binary number that can be expressed with 12 bits? What are the equivalent decimal and hexadecimal numbers?

Number Bases:

Numbers can be expressed in any base. The numbers that we encounter daily are in base 10, so we have 10 digits that make up all the numbers, the digits being 0 - 9. Computers understand only 2 digits, so their number system is in base 2. Other common bases are 8 and 16.