I recently wondered about why not just use one bit as "+/-" and use the other as a number module? Will their use not be rational or are there some other factors that prevent this from being done?
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@harold, yes, it is something similar – Realman Oct 22 '21 at 17:29
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FWIW IEEE floating point does kind of do that, but for integers the TL;DR is that sign and magnitude representation is more complicated in hardware and also has two zeros (+0 and -0). – Arkku Oct 22 '21 at 23:04