单词 | most significant |
释义 | > as lemmasmost significant most significant adj. (in computing and numerical analysis) designating the digit in a number (which may be an address in a computer instruction) having the greatest value, that is, the leftmost digit of a number as conventionally written; (also) the byte in a binary number which has the greatest value. ΚΠ 1951 M. V. Wilkes et al. Prepar. Programs for Electronic Digital Computer i. i. 3 Negative numbers are represented inside the machine by their true complements and the most significant digit of any number is treated in the arithmetical unit as a sign digit. 1987 J. Millman & A. Grabel Microelectronics (ed. 2) vi. 209 The leftmost bit, representing the place value of the highest power of 2, is the most-significant bit (MSB). 1993 D. Libes Obfuscated C & Other Myst. 117 The most significant byte is stored at the same address as the integer on the 680x0 family. < as lemmas |
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