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PASSAGE 2

The four different bases that have been employed in commercially available computers are binary, octal, decimal, and hexadecimal. ... If the radix point is to the extreme left, the significand is a fraction. If the radix point is to the extreme right, it is apparent that the significand is an integer number. Presumably the significand would be shifted right (with an appropriate adjustment of the value of the exrad) until the rightmost base element (1 bit for binary, 3 for octal, 4 for both decimal and hexadecimal) is nonzero. Although exact conversions of external base 10 values to internal base 2 values, and vice versa, exist for integral values, the placement of the radix point on the right does not result in exact conversion accuracy, even for those values which can be entirely contained in the space provided for the significand, because of the effects of multiplying the also converted exponent as a power of the base.

22- For an integer significand, the radix point __________.