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From: jjg@security.UUCP (Jeff Glass)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: More Naughty Bits
Message-ID: <944@security.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 18-Aug-85 13:30:55 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 18 13:30:55 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 21:40:22 EDT
References: <575@brl-tgr.ARPA> <132@rtp47.UUCP> <387@uwmcsd1.UUCP>
Reply-To: jjg@security.UUCP (Jeff Glass)
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Organization: MITRE Corp., Bedford, Ma.
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Summary: 

> (discussion about machines where 0.0 does not have same representation as 0)

The CDC Cyber series represents floating-point zero with the (12-bit)
exponent zero.  It doesn't matter whether the (48-bit) mantissa is zero
or not.  If you normalize such a number, though, I believe you get back
a mantissa of zero.

Integer zero is 60 bits of all zeros or all ones (1's-complement machine).

/jeff
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