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Noun

signed magnitude

1. 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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