Introduction - Microsoft

Signed Integer – leftmost signbit is 0 if the number is positive or 0, and 1 if it’s negative. (Largest 16 bit integer is 32,767 (2 to 15 power – 1). 32-bit is 2,147,483,647 (2 to 31 power – 1).) Negative numbers are represented in two’s complement form. ................
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