VietMX Staff asked 3 years ago
A byte is made up of 8 bits and the highest value of a byte is 255, which would mean every bit is set. We will look at why a byte’s maximum value is 255 in just a second.
So if all bits are set and the value = 255 my byte would look like this:
| 1 Byte ( 8 bits ) | ||||||||||
| Place Value | 128 | 64 | 32 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | ||
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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=
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255 | |
Lets take it right to left and add up all those values together 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 16 + 32 + 64 + 128 = 255
