Everybody please quiesce the road rage. Circuits work in voltages.
Bill Fairchld Franklin, TN ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Ford" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, December 8, 2013 1:28:10 PM Subject: Re: "hexadecimal"? What do circuits work in ???? ....... Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' > On Dec 8, 2013, at 2:07 PM, "David L. Craig" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
