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Preliminary Concepts: Special Binary Numbers A computer
can not represent every number. There will always be a number so large
that we do not have enough bits to represent it. However, we can reserve
certain patterns of 1s and 0s to represent certain values that have
special use. For example, even though we cannot represent very large numbers
that take more bits than we have available, we can reserve one pattern
of 1s and 0s to represent infinity. This is similar to you writing the
mathematical symbol for infinity |
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