MINUS INFINITY


Meaning of MINUS INFINITY in English

The most negative value, not necessarily or even usually the simple negation of plus infinity . In N bit twos-complement arithmetic, infinity is 2^(N-1) - 1 but minus infinity is -(2^(N-1)), not -(2^(N-1) - 1).

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