Invitation to Computer Science 8th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 1337561916
ISBN 13: 978-1-33756-191-4

Chapter 4 - Exercises - Page 217: 8

Answer

+511 and -511

Work Step by Step

One bit will be reserved for sign so there will be 9 bits for magnitude, the largest value we can get by 9 bits is 511 so we can represent numbers from -511 to +511 both included.
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