27 Sep
2004
27 Sep
'04
9:03 a.m.
>>>> "Ron" == Ron Hudson
<ron.hudson(a)sbcglobal.net> writes:
Ron> On Sep 26, 2004, at 11:51 AM, David V. Corbin wrote:
>>>> Ron wrote.... Why not have it add
ascii directly... "1" + "1"
>>>> = "2" :^)
>
>
> Who EVER implied a relation between decimal representation and
> ascii representation??????????
>
> David.
>
>
Ron> no one... just me just now... Didn't and older IBM machine
Ron> store numbers digit by digit in consecutive words (allowing you
Ron> to setup integers as long/wide as you needed) ?
Yes, that exactly describes the IBM 1620. (It even had variable
length floating point -- any number of digits for the mantissa, though
always 2 digits for the exponent.)
paul