Timeline for PDP-8 floating point numbers
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| Jan 11 at 1:25 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jan 10 at 17:52 | answer | added | John Dallman | timeline score: 17 | |
| Jan 10 at 17:44 | comment | added | davidbak | It says the exponent is a 2's complement signed integer. Is that not a sufficient specification? If by "dead numbers" and "flags" you mean things like we would call NaNs or F.P. modes these days I think you're overestimating the sophistication of the F.P. packages on these early, dinky, minicomputers. | |
| Jan 10 at 17:24 | history | asked | Maury Markowitz | CC BY-SA 4.0 |