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Signed magnitude

Noun

Definitions

1.NounThe convention by which one bit in the representation of a number indicates the numeric sign, while the rest indicate the magnitude.
"The IEEE standard for floating point uses signed magnitude for the mantissa."

Synonyms

sign bitsign-value notationnumber signsign functionsignificandsigndigitmultiplication signsig. fig.times signminus signplus sign
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