On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:56:45 +0100 Roland Mainz wrote: > Glenn Fowler wrote: > > On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 20:05:27 +0100 Cedric Blancher wrote: > > > Why do we need typeset -X? Can someone explain the difference between > > > typeset -X and the existing typeset -E float format? > > > > if the floating point implementation radix is a power of 2 > > (most implementations)
> Just curious: Is there any other radix implemented in hardware > (excluding IEEE754-2008 Decimal Floating Point (e.g. base10 > floating-point math) which is available on some IBM hardware and others) > ? see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Floating_Point_Architecture it cites two ibm architectures with IEEE 754 decimal floating point implementations
