Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!ucla-cs!dgreen From: dgreen@CS.UCLA.EDU Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: The Power of **2 Message-ID: <7408@shemp.UCLA.EDU> Date: Sun, 26-Jul-87 22:44:31 EDT Article-I.D.: shemp.7408 Posted: Sun Jul 26 22:44:31 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 27-Jul-87 03:51:26 EDT References: <44037@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> Sender: root@CS.UCLA.EDU Reply-To: dgreen@CS.UCLA.EDU (Dan R. Greening) Lines: 13 In article <44037@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> mo@seismo.CSS.GOV (Mike O'Dell) writes: >Well, I guess the do base 2 arithmetic, but wait, didn't >the Univacs use ones-comp, or was it only classic >CDC machines??? Ones-complement, twos-complement, sign+magnitude, excess-64, etc are integer representations independent of number base. I.e., all the machines you listed are base-2 machines, except perhaps in their handling of floating point mantissas. Dan Greening Internet dgreen@CS.UCLA.EDU UUCP ..!{sdcrdcf,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!dgreen