From: DrDiettrich1@netscape.net   
      
   On 2/6/23 10:26 PM, gah4 wrote:   
      
   > Too bad for those CDC computers, and Unisys computers.   
   > Last I know of sign-magnitude is the IBM 7090 and 7094.   
      
   AFAIK use IEEE-754 floating point numbers still sign-magnitude   
   representation.   
   Then the same representation of integral numbers may have advantages in   
   computations.   
      
   DoDi   
   [I presume the sign-magnitude is to enable the hidden bit trick,   
   which doesn't apply in unscaled integers. -John]   
      
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