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OCR: Lesson 13 I-63 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 1010 If you were to cal cul Late how numbers you could descri ibe within wou , . come out to 294 967 296 that over four billion: plenty big you put your Mac to But tpositi bill iliaw op you work wi th negi numbe Signed and unsigned numbers The answer lies in a special technique of Mops that takesunsignedpositive only range of four billion and divides ' it into two 'halves, each slightly more than two billion numbers big One half is assigned to the positive range the other half to the negative In other words the range Qf thes esigned numbers plus-or-minus 147 483 647 What distinguish hes a signed from an unsigned number is the way you perform operations on them For example if you enter a negative number onto the stack, the minus sign shows M ...