Hello
Open to correcting , but what you are doing here is actually not CIDR, (Classless Inter domain routing) but classful.
If you look at the IP address and the /number you are using, its easier to convert to binary.
there are four octets to an IP addres eg 192.168.20.20 each would be represented as a binary number.
PArt of this is a network address and part of it defines a host on your network.
so if you use a /16 this means the first 16 bits are the network address whereas the second 16 is the hosts in this case the 192.168 is the network portion and 20.20 is the host on the 192.168 network
If you were to define a /24 ( 8+8+8 ) then this would be 192.169.20 is the network address, whereas .20 is the host.
Of course doing this in groups of 8 meant with reali IP address, the amount of hosts and networks was very limited, and was going to run out in the early 90's. This is when CIDR was introduced, this allowed for variable length subnets, eg, /18 This would mean part of the 3rd octet (the first two) bits in the 3rd octet would be used as the network address and the last 6 bits of the third octet and then last 8bits of the last octet.
Probably too much info for you, but I enjoyed writing it