hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer) (07/31/85)
>Finally all of the 360's float formats have the same number >of exponent bits, so they all have a dynamic range of 10^+/-75. >I can't fault them for that as much as for the other stuff, since >at the time the standard dynamic range for floats was only half that. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Assuming that the standard was the IBM 7090 family, that's correct. The IBM 650, IBM 1620 and (I think) IBM 1401/1410 family, all used an exponent range of +/- 99, and the CDC 1604 had an exponent range of +/- 300. --henry schaffer