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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_BASIC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_BASIC "All operations were done in floating point. On the GE-225 and GE-2
by Salgat 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_BASIC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_BASIC
"All operations were done in floating point. On the GE-225 and GE-235, this produced a precision of about 30 bits (roughly ten digits) with a base-2 exponent range of -256 to +255.[49]"
- jazzyjackson 2y agoGood find, Dartmouth was the original BASIC for their mainframe timesharing, Apple and other micro variants came later. Speaking of, John G. Kemeny's book "Man and the Computer" is a fantastic read, introducing what computers are, how time sharing works, and the thinking behind the design of BASIC.