Hexadecimal is a readable system for binary, if the hex characters are not numbers per se they are EBCDIC...that's been since I wrote BAL on s360/20
Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' > On Dec 8, 2013, at 1:55 PM, Warren Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
