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Integers are represented on a computer in the form of signed binary numbers. Often 2-, 4- and 8-byte integers are available where a byte possesses eight binary digits. In many computers 4 bytes are the smallest available—addressable—unit of the memory. It may turn out that we can work with one- and 16-byte integers, too.
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Stoyan, G., Baran, A. (2016). Floating Point Arithmetic. In: Elementary Numerical Mathematics for Programmers and Engineers. Compact Textbooks in Mathematics. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44660-8_1
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