sign bit

A sign bit may also be used to allow negative numbers.

Where is the sign bit, and bits after the backtick mark are discarded.

A number is called signed if it contains a sign bit, otherwise unsigned.

This machine had a loud speaker system attached to the sign bit of the accumulator.

To check the answer, note that the first bit is the sign bit, which is negative.

The most significant bit determines the sign of the number and is sometimes called the sign bit.

The smallest negative value is characterized by the sign bit being 1, and all other bits being 0.

Fourth, a signed integer halves the possible index range to be able to store the sign bit.

Since the entire word is a 2's complement integer, a sign bit is implied.

He handed the sealed and signed bit of paper to J. "There you are.

The sign bit does not matter.

I'll sign bits of paper for them later.'

I had to keep on signing bits of paper which were meant to list my property, but I had no opportunity to read anything.

The following table provides a complete list of the standard integer types and their minimum allowed widths (including any sign bit).

For data storage, each word was divided into two halves, each half was a 15-bit number with a sign bit.

Representing a signed fixed-point data type in Q format therefore always requires m+n+1 bits to account for the sign bit.

Logarithmic number systems represent a real number by the logarithm of its absolute value and a sign bit.

Thus this left-hand bit position is a sign bit, set to zero for positive, and one for negative, values.

This is adequate for left shift, at least as long as the bits shifted out are the same as the sign bit.

This includes the sign bit, (biased) exponent, and significand.

The storage form then has the first bit, the sign bit, 0 for positive numbers and 1 for negative numbers.

Internally, the overflow flag is usually generated by an exclusive or of the internal carry into and out of the sign bit.

The way in which the significand, exponent and sign bits are internally stored on a computer is implementation-dependent.

This value is converted to a full-word (32 bits) by extending the sign bit to the left, since two's complement representation is used.

Despite the extremely blustery conditions in Brixton providing a challenge when trying to get people to sign bits of paper, we had a very successful day.