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by Animats
1093 days ago
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There's also signed-magnitude, which Burroughs used. Burroughs even had a unified floating point and integer representation. 48-bit floats had a sign, an exponent sign, an exponent, and a mantissa. The binary point was at the low end of the mantissa, and if both inputs had a zero exponent and the result could be represented with a zero exponent, it would be. No need for a float/integer distinction in programs. |
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