IBM hexadecimal floating-point

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title: IBM hexadecimal floating-point
text: Hexadecimal floating point is a format for encoding floating-point numbers first introduced on the IBM System/360 computers, and supported on subsequent machines based on that architecture, as well as machines which were intended to be application-compatible with System/360. In comparison to IEEE 754 floating point, the HFP format has a longer significand, and a shorter exponent. All HFP formats have 7 bits of exponent with a bias of 64. The normalized range of representable numbers is from 16−6
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date created: 2004-03-19T20:48:59Z
date modified: 2024-08-28T19:36:10Z
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