minus infinity

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minus infinity - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  minus infinity
  
     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).