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From: haapanen@watdcsu.UUCP (Tom Haapanen [DCS])
Newsgroups: net.micro.68k,net.arch
Subject: Re: Nothing New Here / Re: VAX Floating Point
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Date: Wed, 12-Sep-84 09:03:58 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 12 09:03:58 1984
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The 360/370/30XX/43XX series IBM machines use hexadecimal
normalization.  This is the pits.

The VAX uses binary normalization.  This is MUCH better.

Tom Haapanen
University of Waterloo
{allegra,decvax,ihnp4,utzoo}!watmath!watdcsu!haapanen

...thanks to CS375 (Numerical Analysis)...