Suppose that a system uses 32-bit memory words and its memory is built from 16 1M × 8 RAM chips. How many address bits are required to uniquely identify each memory word?

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Suppose that a system uses 32-bit memory words and its memory is built from 16 1M × 8 RAM chips. How many address bits are required to uniquely identify each memory word? 

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