On 13Dec08:1352-0500, Scott Ford wrote: > Huh .....maybe you should back to computer basics > ...at machine level everything is binary > > Scott ford > www.identityforge.com > from my IPAD
You, sir, are the one who needs to go back--specifically to zPOPs page 9-3: : Hexadecimal-Floating-Point (HFP) : : Hexadecimal-floating-point (HFP) operands have for- : mats which provide for exponents that specify pow- : ers of the radix 16 and significands that are : hexadecimal numbers. The exponent range is the : same for the short, long, and extended formats. The : results of most operations on HFP data are truncated : to fit into the target format, but there are instructions : available to round the result when converting to a : narrower format. For HFP operands, the implicit unit : digit of the significand is always zero. Since the value : of the significand and fraction are the same, HFP : operations are described in terms of the fraction, and : the term significand is not used. : : Either normalized or unnormalized numbers may be : used as operands for any HFP or DFP operation, : where, for HFP, a normalized number is one having a : nonzero leftmost fraction digit, or, for DFP, a normal- : ized number is one having a nonzero leftmost signifi- : cand digit. Most HFP instructions generate : normalized results for greatest precision. HFP add : and subtract instructions that generate unnormalized : results are also available. -- <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
