Timeline for Why did 8-bit Basic use 40-bit floating point?
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| Nov 16, 2020 at 1:56 | comment | added | rackandboneman | Yes, and wasting 24 bits per variable would have been a major inefficiency on a late-1970s small computer. A kilobit worth of RAM cost real money in these times :) | |
| Nov 14, 2020 at 12:22 | review | First posts | |||
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| Nov 14, 2020 at 12:18 | history | answered | Roger | CC BY-SA 4.0 |