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| Re: C arithmetic, was Software proofs, was Are there different gah4@u.washington.edu (gah4) (2023-02-09) |
| Re: C arithmetic, was Software proofs, was Are there different gah4@u.washington.edu (gah4) (2023-02-09) |
| Re: C arithmetic, was Software proofs, was Are there different DrDiettrich1@netscape.net (Hans-Peter Diettrich) (2023-02-10) |
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| Re: C arithmetic, was Software proofs, was Are there different gah4@u.washington.edu (gah4) (2023-02-11) |
| Re: C arithmetic, was Software proofs, was Are there different anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (2023-02-11) |
| Re: C arithmetic, was Software proofs, was Are there different drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (2023-02-12) |
| From: | anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| Date: | Sat, 11 Feb 2023 22:34:25 GMT |
| Organization: | Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien |
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| Posted-Date: | 11 Feb 2023 20:28:32 EST |
gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> writes:
>[I am not aware of any hidden bit formats before IEEE
The VAX FP formats have a hidden bit
<https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nssdc/formats/VAXFloatingPoint.htm>, and
AFAIK VAX F and G are pretty close to IEEE binary32 and binary64.
According to
<https://home.kpn.nl/jhm.bonten/computers/bitsandbytes/wordsizes/hidbit.htm>
already Zuse used a hidden bit in FP numbers on his machines (1940s
and 1950s).
--
M. Anton Ertl
anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/
[Oh, right, I forgot about Zuse. He invented a lot of stuff that other
people reinvented later. Squinting at my VAX architecture handbook, the
formats have the same layout as IEEE but the exponents are excess 128 and
1024 rather than 127 and 1023 and there's no infinities or denormals. -John]
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