{"id":533,"date":"2018-10-16T18:11:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T18:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/embedded-systems\/?page_id=533"},"modified":"2018-10-16T18:11:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T18:11:13","slug":"most-significant-bit-msb-glossary-entry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/embedded-systems\/glossary-2\/most-significant-bit-msb-glossary-entry\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Significant Bit (msb) &#8211; (Glossary Entry)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the binary number system, the left most bit (the bit with the highest weighting) is known as the most significant bit (msb). For example:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"\"><strong>1<\/strong>0000101 msb = 1\r\n<strong>0<\/strong>1000101 msb = 0\r\n<strong>0<\/strong>100 msb = 0\r\n<strong>1<\/strong>101 msb = 1<\/pre>\n<p>For a signed binary number, the msb also indicates the sign (1 for negative).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the binary number system, the left most bit (the bit with the highest weighting) is known as the most significant bit (msb). For example: 10000101 msb = 1 01000101 msb = 0 0100 msb = 0 1101 msb = 1 For a signed binary number, the msb also indicates the sign (1 for negative).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":153,"menu_order":59,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-533","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/embedded-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/embedded-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/embedded-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/embedded-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/embedded-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/embedded-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/embedded-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/533\/revisions\/534"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/embedded-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/embedded-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}