This is all from memory, so take it with a grain of salt -

The 'Classic' 3000 systems used a proprietary (i.e., non-IEEE) format
for floating point.  The PA-RISC systems use IEEE 754 floating point
'natively'.  TurboIMAGE databases (which may be what you're referring
to when you say 'how numbers are stored' provides both an IEEE format
and a Classic format.  I have no idea the relative usage of these
formats in the 'real world'.   There is also an intrinsic
(HPFPCONVERT?) to convert between the two formats.

Mike

Chip Mayan ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: Can anyone point me in the right direction as to how real, (Floating Point),
: numbers are stored on the HP3000?  Apparently it is not in accordance with
: IEEE standards.  We are trying to integrate information into MANMAN from an
: AS400 and want to do all the conversions on the PC side so we can minimize
: our programming on the HP side.   Thanks!



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