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...
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Hexadecimal floating point may refer to: IBM hexadecimal floating point in the IBM System 360 and 370 series of computers and others since 1964 Hexadecimal...
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computing, half precision (sometimes called FP16 or float16) is a binary floating-point computer number format that occupies 16 bits (two bytes in modern computers)...
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In computing, decimal128 is a decimal floating-point number format that occupies 128 bits in memory. Formally introduced in IEEE 754-2008, it is intended...
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greatly increase gate count Execution unit IEEE 754 floating-point standard IBM hexadecimal floating point Graphics processing unit Multiply–accumulate operation...
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Decimal floating-point (DFP) arithmetic refers to both a representation and operations on decimal floating-point numbers. Working directly with decimal...
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104932. These examples are given in bit representation, in hexadecimal, of the floating-point value. This includes the sign, (biased) exponent, and significand...
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was revised in 2008. IBM mainframes support IBM's own hexadecimal floating point format and IEEE 754-2008 decimal floating point in addition to the IEEE...
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IEEE 754 (redirect from IEEE Floating Point Standard)
a floating-point standard arose from chaos in the business and scientific computing industry in the 1960s and 1970s. IBM used a hexadecimal floating-point...
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1078913. These examples are given in bit representation, in hexadecimal, of the floating-point value. This includes the sign, (biased) exponent, and significand...
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schemes) Hexadecimal time IBM hexadecimal floating-point Hex editor Hex dump Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula (BBP) Hexspeak P notation "The hexadecimal system"...
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Block floating point (BFP) is a method used to provide an arithmetic approaching floating point while using a fixed-point processor. BFP assigns a group...
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Double-precision floating-point format (sometimes called FP64 or float64) is a floating-point number format, usually occupying 64 bits in computer memory;...
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addressing with fixed-point binary, fixed-point decimal and hexadecimal floating-point calculations. The System/360 family introduced IBM's Solid Logic Technology...
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These examples are given in bit representation, in hexadecimal and binary, of the floating-point value. This includes the sign, (biased) exponent, and...
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These examples are given in bit representation, in hexadecimal and binary, of the floating-point value. This includes the sign, (biased) exponent, and...
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Extended precision (redirect from 80-bit floating point format)
GNU MPFR – the GNU "Multiple Precision Floating-Point Reliably" library for C IBM hexadecimal floating-point IEEE 754 long double x87 "This format is...
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which adds new hexadecimal floating-point instructions corresponding to some binary floating-point instructions. Some PC-based IBM-compatible mainframes...
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NaN (section Floating point)
a floating-point number) which is undefined as a number, such as the result of 0/0. Systematic use of NaNs was introduced by the IEEE 754 floating-point...
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others have libraries available for arbitrary-precision integer and floating-point math. Rather than storing values as a fixed number of bits related to...
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In computing, decimal32 is a decimal floating-point computer numbering format that occupies 4 bytes (32 bits) in computer memory. Like the binary16 and...
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a decimal floating-point computer number format that occupies 8 bytes (64 bits) in computer memory. Decimal64 is a decimal floating-point format, formally...
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TensorFloat-32 (category Floating point types)
TensorFloat-32 (TF32) is a numeric floating point format designed for Tensor Core running on certain Nvidia GPUs. The binary format is: 1 sign bit 8 exponent...
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Hex file (redirect from Hexadecimal file format)
format by Zilog Hex dump Hexadecimal notation Alphanumeric executable Executable ASCII code IBM hexadecimal floating-point P notation This disambiguation...
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number in a floating-point representation which is within the balanced range supported by a given floating-point format: it is a floating point number that...
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floating point numbers are encoded with a variety of representations for the sign, exponent and mantissa. In contemporary machines IBM hexadecimal floating-point...
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Microsoft Binary Format (redirect from MBF (floating point number))
double-precision format (64 bits): Floating-point arithmetic IEEE 754 — Standard for floating-point arithmetic IBM hexadecimal floating-point "IEEE vs. Microsoft Binary...
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and Floating-Point" (PDF). Retrieved July 13, 2015. Schwarz, E. M.; Krygowski, C. A. (September 1999). "The S/390 G5 floating-point unit". IBM Journal...
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Real data type (section Floating-point numbers)
fixed-point or floating-point data type, but with a denominator that is a power of 10 instead of a power of 2. Binary number Decimal number Hexadecimal number...
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(numbers were binary, rather than the hexadecimal format introduced later for System/360) Double-precision floating-point numbers, introduced on the 7094,...
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