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Saxbophone (talk | contribs) Improve wording of sentences regarding range of 48-bit integers in signed and unsigned form. "256 tera bytes" is not a number (was used as such in the previous edit) and this amount of data is also mentioned in the following sentence. |
Saxbophone (talk | contribs) m Clarify 48-bit can address 48TiB of data, not TB (TiB due to the binary nature of the number, whereas TB officially is regarded as a power of 10) |
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{{Computer architecture bit widths}}
In [[computer architecture]], '''48-bit''' [[integer (computer science)|integer]]s can represent 281,474,976,710,656 (2<sup>48</sup> or 2.814749767×10<sup>14</sup>) discrete values. This allows an [[Unsigned integer|unsigned]] binary integer range of 0 through 281,474,976,710,655 (2<sup>48</sup> − 1) or a [[Signed number representations|signed]] [[two's complement]] range of -140,737,488,355,328 (-2<sup>47</sup>) through 140,737,488,355,327 (2<sup>47</sup> − 1). A '''48-bit''' [[memory address]] can directly address every byte of 256
==Word size==
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