On 13Dec08:0942-0800, Charles Mills wrote:
> It is a pet peeve of mine. People use "hex" sloppily
> to mean "binary" (what I think IBM means in your
> example) or "non-printable" ("does it look like a DD
> name?" "Nyah, it's a bunch of hex.").
>
> Hex is not a kind of data. It is a convenient way of
> representing data. X'F1' is a clearer image in most
> cases than 11110001 or 241. All data is potentially
> hex; that is, is representable in hex. That's the
> beauty of hex.
I would not expect to read this on this maining list.
The original floating-point hardware of the S/360
architecture is hexadecimal, not binary. A normalized
value may have up to three leading binary zeros as a
consequence.
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