So , hexadecimal is not the same EBCDIC ?
________________________________ From: David L. Craig <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, December 8, 2013 1:44 PM Subject: Re: "hexadecimal"? 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. -- <not cent from sell> May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly! Dave_Craig______________________________________________ "So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe." __--from_Nightfall_by_Asimov/Silverberg_________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
