signed magnitude
English
Noun
signed
magnitude
(
computing
)
The 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.
See also
floating point
negative zero
positive zero
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