Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

signed magnitude

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.94 in modern English

Syllables: signed -mag-ni-tude
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Example Sentences

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

Phrases

floating point negative zero positive zero

Frequently Paired Words

floating point negative zero positive zero

Questions

What does signed magnitude mean?: The convention by which one bit in the representation of a number indicates the numeric sign, while the rest indicate the magnitude.

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