Hexadecimal floating point

Hexadecimal floating point may refer to:

* IBM hexadecimal floating point in the IBM System 360 and 370 series of computers and others since 1964[1]
* Hexadecimal floating-point arithmetic in the Illinois ILLIAC III computer in 1966[1]
* Hexadecimal floating-point arithmetic in the SDS Sigma 7 computer in 1966[1]
* Hexadecimal floating-point arithmetic in the SDS Sigma 5 computer in 1967[1]
* Hexadecimal floating-point arithmetic in the Xerox Sigma 9 computer in 1970[1]
* Hexadecimal floating-point arithmetic in the Interdata 8/32 computer in the 1970s[1]
* Hexadecimal floating-point arithmetic in the Manchester MU5 computer in 1972[2]
* Hexadecimal floating-point arithmetic in the Data General Eclipse S/200 computer in ca. 1974[1]
* Hexadecimal floating-point arithmetic in the Gould Powernode 9080 computer in the 1980s[1]
* Hexadecimal floating-point arithmetic in the HEP computer in 1982[2]
* Hexadecimal floating-point arithmetic in the SEL System 85 computer[1]
* Hexadecimal floating-point arithmetic in the SEL System 86 computer[1]

## See also

* Hexadecimal
* Floating-point arithmetic

## References

1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 "Chapter H. Historical floating-point architectures". The Mathematical-Function Computation Handbook - Programming Using the MathCW Portable Software Library (1 ed.). Salt Lake City, UT, USA: Springer International Publishing AG. 2017-08-22. p. 948. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-64110-2. ISBN 978-3-319-64109-6.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Rechnerarithmetik: Fest- und Gleitkommasysteme" (in German). Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. Summer 2008. p. 2. https://users.fmi.uni-jena.de/~nez/rechnerarithmetik_5/folien/Rechnerarithmetik.2008.05.handout.pdf. [1]

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