PS. Just as an aside, I cut my teeth on IBM System/360 floating point,
which used a hexadecimal exponent! Very ragged precision - not a good
idea at all!
Ah. How nostalgic to see the old 360 mentioned. I wonder if any are still in use?
George
PS. Just as an aside, I cut my teeth on IBM System/360 floating point,
which used a hexadecimal exponent! Very ragged precision - not a good
idea at all!