All, Let's get back on Gil's questioned pls..
Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' > On Dec 9, 2013, at 10:13 AM, DASDBILL2 <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
