unsigned integer

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unsigned
adjective
uk
/ʌnˈsaɪnd/us
/ʌnˈsaɪnd/
(of a letter, painting, etc.) with no name or signature on it, saying who has written or ...
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integer
noun[C]
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/ˈɪn.tɪ.dʒər/us
/ˈɪn.tə.dʒɚ/
a whole number and not ...
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(Definition ofunsignedandintegerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This means that the segment will be interpreted as anunsignedinteger.
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The segment's bit sequence will be interpreted as anunsignedinteger.
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An example of returning the index of the least significant bit from a 32 bitunsignedintegeris given below using bit manipulation.
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Some features like operator overloading orunsignedintegertypes are omitted to simplify the language and to avoid possible programming mistakes.
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Zero is the lowestunsignedintegervalue, one of the most fundamental types in programming and hardware design.
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The values can represent the ranges from 0 to 255 (i.e.unsignedinteger) or from 128 to 127 (i.e. signed integer), depending on the application.
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The first two bytes are the bridge priority, anunsignedintegerof 0-65,535.
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The last line (shown here as two lines of text) caused the overflow, where the conversion from the 64 bit float to 16 bitunsignedintegeris not protected.
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The 1-, 2-, and 4-byte variants are pretty straightforward: make anunsignedintegerout of the bytes, and that integer is the number of bytes that follow.
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For example, a comparison of signed and unsigned integers of equal width requires a conversion of the signed value to unsigned.
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Memory addresses are fixed-length sequences of digits conventionally displayed and manipulated as unsigned integers.
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For unsigned integers, the bitwise complement of a number is the mirror reflection of the number across the half-way point of the unsigned integer's range.
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These identifiers are 32-bit unsigned integers, but are not necessarily different from identifiers of resources or atoms.
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All values are stored as unsigned integers, unless explicitly noted.
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The word size, 12 bits, is large enough to handle unsigned integers from 0 to 4095 wide enough for controlling simple machinery.
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When used in this way the carry flag provides a mechanism for comparing the values as unsigned integers.
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The data may just be treated as unsigned integers, requiring the programmer to deal with the zero offset in software.
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The format is not even limited to graphics, its definition allowing it to be used for arbitrary three-dimensional matrices of unsigned integers.
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Unsigned integers are converted to signed values in certain situations; this behavior is different from other programming languages.
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All values are treated as unsigned integers.
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