What is lower and higher bits?

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Shane picture Shane · Sep 28, 2013 · Viewed 26.8k times · Source

Can anyone tell me what is lower and higher bits?. How to identify a higher and lower bit?. Below is binary form. How does 0110 is higher bit in it?.

0110 0111 1100 1010 1100 0111 1001 1011

Answer

David Schwartz picture David Schwartz · Sep 28, 2013

Just like in decimal, higher places are generally written to the left in binary. So if you see 0111, the 0 is the high bit. So this would represent 7 in decimal. The same applies when spaces are used, just like when commas (or dots, depending on your locale) are used to separate groups of digits in decimal.

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