(I know you're being tongue-in-cheek, but) > our computer might compute the correct answer but then just throw out the 9th bit, giving us zero (0000 0000) inst

(I know you're being tongue-in-cheek, but) > our computer might compute the correct answer but then just throw out the 9th bit, giving us zero (0000 0000) instead of 257 (1 0000 0000)!