> On Aug 22, 2015, at 6:27 PM, Chuck Guzis <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> ...FLoating point can engender some interesting representations. Consider
> the exponent field on the aforementioned CDC 6000 series. It's a "biased by
> 2000 octal) system--and the assumed binary point of the mantissa is to the
> right of the LSB. So, 2000 0000 0000 0000 0001 octal = 1 exactly.
EL-X8 doesn't use the bias, so the floating point representation of an integer
under 2^39 is the same as the integer representation. And the rule for
normalizing float values preserves that (normalization makes the exponent as
close to zero as possible -- rather different than the usual rule).
paul
