Examples of incandescence in a sentence. candles made from whale oil were once highly prized because they burned with an incandescence superior to that of other candles.
There are 8 US states that begin with N. They are: Nebraska (NE) Nevada (NV) New Hampshire (NH) New Jersey (NJ) New Mexico (NM) New York (NY) North Carolina (NC)
For each of those 4 states, the next bit can be a 1 or a 0, giving 8 states. So in general, each bit multiplies the number of states by 2. So we have 2^(8*number of bytes) different states we can represent. Consider byte, for example, it has 2^8 = 256 states. However, Java reserves the most significant bit for sign (positive/negative), so instead of being 0 to 256, we take half of those states and say that if the bit is 1, they are negative, if it is 0, they are positive.