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The reader who has found difficulty in transposing and translating 8-bit binary numbers might like to consider the problems that can arise when dealing with 16-bit or larger numbers. The usual size of a store that an MPU is capable of addressing is 216 or 65536 locations. The following are three binary addresses taken at random in such a store
Such numbers are difficult to handle and very prone to error when being transcribed (much more so than their decimal equivalents of 47 492, 50 141 and 18 998, respectively.)
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© 1979 Eric Huggins
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Huggins, E. (1979). Representation. In: Microprocessors and Microcomputers. Macmillan Basis Books in Electronics. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16105-8_4
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