On 10/3/24 10:51, Norman Jaffe via cctalk wrote:
> The IBM 360 single precision floating point has a range of 10**-79 to 10**75; 
> double precision and extended precision has the same number of bits for the 
> exponent. 

...and most significanrly, normalized to only the hex digit (4 bits),
not to the bit.   Really awful if you thought you could migrate code
from a 7094...

--Chuck

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