22 Sep
2018
22 Sep
'18
3:16 p.m.
On Sat, Sep 22, 2018, 13:54 Dean Notarnicola <dnotarnicola@gmail.com> wrote:
Overflow resulting in negative numbers? How long is a float on a stock PDP-8?
The results seemed very random, so I'm not sure if it was overflow or something else. I need to get my system back together to test again. A float, as I recall, is stored in three 12-bit words with a 27 bit mantissa and a 9 bit exponent, each including their respective sign bits. Kyle