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From: bson@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Jan Brittenson)
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Subject: Re: Does the 48sx use BCD? (Was: Re: How accurate is the 48??)
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Date: 22 May 91 08:45:00 GMT
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In a posting of [22 May 91 03:18:14 GMT]
   b2676870@rick.cs.ubc.ca (wilson w ma) writes:

 > Are you saying that the 48sx uses BCD?

   `Decimal' is probably a better term. 12 digits mantissa, one sign
digit, and three digits 10's exponent (10's complement, i.e. 999 = -1,
998 = -2, etc).

						-- Jan Brittenson
						   bson@ai.mit.edu