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Removed the citation needed on the "signed integer" range thing. It was entirely unnecessary and it just a part of how computer systems work. It'd be like asking for citation for 2+2=4
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The range of unsigned integers that can be represented in 24&nbsp;bits is 0 to 16,777,215 (0xFFFFFF in [[hexadecimal]]). The range of signed integers that can be represented in 24&nbsp;bits is -8,388,608 to 8,388,607. {{cn|date=September 2015}}
 
Several fixed-point [[digital signal processor]]s have a 24-bit data bus, selected as the basic word length because it gave the system a reasonable precision for the processing audio (sound).