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Re: Real number storage on HP3000
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Lars Appel <[log in to unmask]>
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Lars Appel <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 2 May 1999 21:26:50 +0200
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At 02:59 PM 4/30/99 GMT, you 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.

As others already mentioned, there are two flavours of reals on MPE.

 http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/doc3k/B3265090015.10436/1

 DATA TYPES CONVERSION Programmer's Guide
 Recognizing Primitive Data Types

Lars.

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