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<cae1xxdghzfrrsvdf5u83dmhsgnte12b8akd3u0erbzjkqo3...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 09/18/2014
at 11:21 AM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> said:
>Except for IBM's Hexadecimal Floating Point, which in fact does
>real hexadecimal (instead of binary of decimal) arithmetic,
>hexadecimal is not a data type at all: it is a compact external
>representation of bit strings, any instance of which can have
>different interpretations in different contexts.
Hexadecimal is most certainly a data type, although not one generally
applicable to zArchitecture. Both decimal and hexadecimal data can be
manipulated without binary logic elements, although I can't imagine
wanting to do so except on a demo mechanical device.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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