Signed number representation

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Signedness is a property of data types representing numbers. A numeric variable is signed if it can represent both positive and negative numbers, and unsigned if it can only represent non-negative numbers (zero or positive numbers).1

Further reading

  • One's complement
  • Two's complement

[1] Signedness, Wikipedia. (2019). https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Signedness&oldid=931665752 (accessed March 10, 2020).