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 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, h ...
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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 b ...
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