Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!UB.D.UMN.EDU!rregal From: rregal@UB.D.UMN.EDU (ron regal) Newsgroups: comp.sys.encore Subject: Floating Point Representation on Encore Message-ID: <8809232030.AA26780@ub.D.UMN.EDU> Date: 23 Sep 88 20:30:38 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 3 How are the exponents stored in single precision floating point numbers on UMAX? Excess 126? Is the mantissa stored with the first bit implicitly 1? What manual should I have been able to find this info in?