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Meaning of signed magnitude | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

The convention by which one bit in the representation of a number indicates the numeric sign, while the rest indicate the magnitude.

Examples

“The IEEE standard for floating point uses signed magnitude for the mantissa.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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