Sign-and-magnitude
The first approach for representing a number's sign
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Tuesday, 18 December 2012
Signed and Unsigned numbers
In mathematics, negative numbers in any base are represented in the usual way, by prefixing them with a "−" sign. However, on a computer, there are various ways of representing a number's sign. Now we discuss the following methods for representing signed numbers in a computer.
The first approach for representing a number's sign
The first approach for representing a number's sign
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