[1]: 100–103 The concept of a distance is valid only if all elements of the object are of the same size (typically given in bytes or words).
An odd offset would cause a program check (unless the base register itself also contained an odd address)—since instructions had to be aligned on half-word boundaries to execute without a program or hardware interrupt.
The previous example describes an indirect way to address to a memory location in the format of segment:offset.
Further, we are also allowed to shift the hexadecimal segment to reach the final absolute memory address.
One thing to note here is that we can reach our final absolute address in many ways.