Bit numbering

Similarly, the most significant bit (MSb) represents the highest-order place of the binary integer.

Bit indexing correlates to the positional notation of the value in base 2.

For this reason, bit index is not affected by how the value is stored on the device, such as the value's byte order.

In digital steganography, sensitive messages may be concealed by manipulating and storing information in the least significant bits of an image or a sound file.

This table illustrates an example of an 8 bit signed decimal value using the two's complement method.

The MSb most significant bit has a negative weight in signed integers, in this case -27 = -128.

The value of an unsigned binary integer is therefore LSb of a number can be calculated with time complexity of