1st Edition:
Pg 54:
The C code that reads:
Bit30 = ((ShiftThisValue & 0x800000000) != 0 ) ? 0x40000000 : 0;
The value "0x800000000" should really be "0x80000000" (seven zeros instead of eight).
Pg 65:
Simple spelling mistake: "represernt" should be "represent".
Pg 136:
The book claims that there are 2^56 (two raised to the 56th power) elementary particles in the known universe. This number is too small (I copied this from some article without verifying it myself shame on me). The real value is around 2^76 (approximately). So, in theory, it might be possible to build a memory subsystem with 2^64 bytes of memory. Physically, however, such a memory subsystem would be huge (for example, it takes four billion DVDs to represent this much information). So it's probably still safe to say that 2^64 is still an "infinite" amount of memory as far as personal computers are concerned.
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