The hypothetical computer, Shelly$-32$ has word lengths of $32$ bits $(32$ binary digits$).$ The bits composing a word in Shelly$-32$ are allocated in the following way when representing a nonzero real number $x=+-q{2}^m$ :

$\backslash$table$[[$Sign of real number $x$:$,1$ bit,$($#$31)$