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What value would 1010 represent as a sign-magnitude number?
Stephen Davies, Ph.D. Version 2.2.2 Through Discrete Mathematics A Cool Brisk Walk / Chapter 1
"tern 1010 was meant to represent a sign-magnitude number, what value would it represent? Negative two. The left-most bit is 1, so it’s negative; and the remaining bits are 010 , which when interpreted in binary are the number 2."
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