Hexadecimal floating point

Hexadecimal floating point may refer to:

• IBM hexadecimal floating point in the IBM System 360 and 370 series of computers and others since 1964 ^[1]
• Hexadecimal floating-point arithmetic in the Illinois ILLIAC III computer in 1966 ^[1]
• Hexadecimal floating-point arithmetic in the SDS Sigma 7 computer in 1966 ^[1]
• Hexadecimal floating-point arithmetic in the SDS Sigma 5 computer in 1967 ^[1]
• Hexadecimal floating-point arithmetic in the Xerox Sigma 9 computer in 1970 ^[1]
• Hexadecimal floating-point arithmetic in the Interdata 8/32 computer in the 1970s ^[1]
• Hexadecimal floating-point arithmetic in the Manchester MU5 computer in 1972 ^[2]
• Hexadecimal floating-point arithmetic in the Data General Eclipse S/200 computer in ca. 1974 ^[1]
• Hexadecimal floating-point arithmetic in the Gould Powernode 9080 computer in the 1980s ^[1]
• Hexadecimal floating-point arithmetic in the HEP computer in 1982 ^[2]
• Hexadecimal floating-point arithmetic in the SEL System 85 computer ^[1]
• Hexadecimal floating-point arithmetic in the SEL System 86 computer ^[1]

See also

• Hexadecimal
• Floating-point arithmetic

References

1. Beebe, Nelson H. F. (2017-08-22). "Chapter H. Historical floating-point architectures". The Mathematical-Function Computation Handbook - Programming Using the MathCW Portable Software Library (1 ed.). Salt Lake City, UT, USA: Springer International Publishing AG. p. 948. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-64110-2. ISBN   978-3-319-64109-6. LCCN   2017947446.
2. Zehendner, Eberhard (Summer 2008). "Rechnerarithmetik: Fest- und Gleitkommasysteme" (PDF) (Lecture script) (in German). Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. p. 2. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2018-08-07. Retrieved 2018-08-07.