Hexadecimal floating point may refer to:
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IBM hexadecimal floating point
Hexadecimal floating point (now called HFP by IBM) is a format for encoding floating-point numbers first introduced on the IBM System/360 computers, and supported on subsequent machines based on that architecture, as well as machines which were i ...
in the IBM System 360 and 370 series of computers and others since 1964
* Hexadecimal floating-point arithmetic in the
Illinois ILLIAC III computer in 1966
* Hexadecimal floating-point arithmetic in the
SDS Sigma 7 computer in 1966
* Hexadecimal floating-point arithmetic in the
SDS Sigma 5 computer in 1967
* Hexadecimal floating-point arithmetic in the
Xerox Sigma 9 computer in 1970
* Hexadecimal floating-point arithmetic in the
Interdata 8/32 computer in the 1970s
* Hexadecimal floating-point arithmetic in the
Manchester MU5 computer in 1972
* Hexadecimal floating-point arithmetic in the
Data General Eclipse S/200 computer in ca. 1974
* Hexadecimal floating-point arithmetic in the
Gould Powernode 9080 computer in the 1980s
* Hexadecimal floating-point arithmetic in the
HEP computer in 1982
* Hexadecimal floating-point arithmetic in the
SEL System 85 computer
* Hexadecimal floating-point arithmetic in the
SEL System 86
Sel is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Otta. The municipality also includes several notable villages includin ...
computer
See also
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Hexadecimal
In mathematics and computing, the hexadecimal (also base-16 or simply hex) numeral system is a positional numeral system that represents numbers using a radix (base) of 16. Unlike the decimal system representing numbers using 10 symbols, hexa ...
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Floating-point arithmetic
In computing, floating-point arithmetic (FP) is arithmetic that represents real numbers approximately, using an integer with a fixed precision, called the significand, scaled by an integer exponent of a fixed base. For example, 12.345 can be r ...
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