Ah, I see. By "sign-magnitude" I just meant that the sign and the magnitude are stored independently, and I think that's the usual usage of the term; I wouldn'

Ah, I see. By "sign-magnitude" I just meant that the sign and the magnitude are stored independently, and I think that's the usual usage of the term; I wouldn't expect "a sign-magnitude format" to mean one where you can use sign-magnitude integer comparison.