Morris Mano Edition 3 Exercise 1 Question 2 (Page No. 33)

Question

What is the Largest Binary Number that Can be Obtained with 16 bits? What is Its Decimal Equivalent?

Answer 1

Largest binary number using 16 bit

1111111111111111

Decimal value  = 65535 = 2^16-1

That can be obtained.  2^n-1

Where n is number of bits.