Re: C arithmetic, was Software proofs, was Are there different

Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net>
Tue, 7 Feb 2023 14:31:26 +0100

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From: Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2023 14:31:26 +0100
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On 2/6/23 10:26 PM, gah4 wrote:


> Too bad for those CDC computers, and Unisys computers.
> Last I know of sign-magnitude is the IBM 7090 and 7094.


AFAIK use IEEE-754 floating point numbers still sign-magnitude
representation.
Then the same representation of integral numbers may have advantages in
computations.


DoDi
[I presume the sign-magnitude is to enable the hidden bit trick,
which doesn't apply in unscaled integers. -John]

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