signed magnitude
signed magnitude · signed magnitudes
The convention by which one bit in the representation of a number indicates the…The convention by which one bit in the representation of a number indicates the numeric sign, while the rest indicate the magnitude.
Meaning
1 sensesThe 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.
Forms
plural: signed magnitudes| Singular | signed magnitude |
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