3 Oct
2024
3 Oct
'24
7:25 p.m.
On 10/3/24 10:51, Norman Jaffe via cctalk wrote:
The IBM 360 single precision floating point has a
range of 10**-79 to 10**75; double precision and extended precision has the same number of
bits for the exponent.
...and most significanrly, normalized to only the hex digit (4 bits),
not to the bit. Really awful if you thought you could migrate code
from a 7094...
--Chuck