25 Oct
2010
25 Oct
'10
2:50 p.m.
Is the study available for perusal somewhere? ?(e.g.
FJCC) ?I'd like
to see their logic.
I do not know. The study is mentioned in the 360 history book.
32 bit was a terrible choice when your floating point
word was 8 bit
exponent and 24 bit mantissa, normalized to a 4 bit boundary,
however.
I do not think anyone has much great to say about S/360 floating point.
Anyway, single precision floating point (32 bit) is relatively
useless, no matter what machine it is on.
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Will