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From: Ian Clifton <ian.clifton@chem.ox.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Fixed Point number mul, is it a bug?
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 23:58:18 +0100
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:42:26 +0100, Ian Clifton wrote:
>
>> Didn’t some IBM machines have a floating‐point format where the exponent
>> was decimal rather than binary?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-coded_decimal#IBM_and_BCD
>

[...]

Ah, in fact I’d mis‐remembered, the format I was thinking of was

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Floating_Point_Architecture

which has a base‐16 exponent, not decimal.
-- 
Ian ◎