English Explanatory Dictionary

signed magnitude

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The convention by which one bit in the representation of a number indicates the numeric sign, while the rest indicate the magnitude.

Word forms

signed magnitude

Related words

floating point negative zero positive zero
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