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Negative flag
In computer processor the negative flag or sign flag is a single bit in a system status (flag) register used to indicate whether the result of last mathematic operation resulted in a value whose most significant bit was set. In a two's complement interpretation of the result, the negative flag is set if the result was negative.
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