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signed magnitude
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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
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floating point
negative zero
positive zero
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