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The base is 10, but the mantissa is in binary. Before you add or subtract you must get the numbers to have equal exponents. In other formats you can do it wit
by jhallenworld 11y ago
The base is 10, but the mantissa is in binary. Before you add or subtract you must get the numbers to have equal exponents. In other formats you can do it with shifting, but this format requires binary multiplication or division.
- nils-m-holm 11y agoS9fES (http://t3x.org/s9fes/ http://t3x.org/s9fes/) uses decimal-based real numbers and does multiplication, division and exponent equalization by shifting. It's not hard, since one digit equals one byte.