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Subject: Floating Point Representation on Encore
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Date: 23 Sep 88 20:30:38 GMT
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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?