What do LSB (least-significant-bit) specifications mean when you are looking at ADCs? A fellow engineer told me that a 12-bit converter from Manufacturer X had just seven usable bits. So, essentially ...

This is traditionally stored as a 32-bit number (which is going to cause some trouble in 2038), and it's currently speculated that 64-bit iPhones are doing something peculiar when handling system ...

Marketing guys love bigger numbers. Bigger is better, right? After all, Subway called it a “footlong” not an 11-incher. So when it comes to analog to digital (A/D) conversion, more bits are ...

But when n is a 1,024-bit or 2,048-bit number, finding two prime factors requires a tremendous amount of computational power.

(For comparison, the largest RSA key ever factored classically was a 829-bit number, RSA-250, in 2020.) In short, 22, 50, or 90 bits is nowhere close to 2048 bits – these demonstrations were on ...