ASM370 - Re: S/360

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Re: S/360

glen herrmannsfeldt

2006-01-16, 3:55 am

John W. Kennedy wrote:
(snip)

> In order to make any sense of your argument, I can only assume that you
> do not know what the words "relevant" and "mantissa" mean. Kindly look
> them up.

Mantissa: The fractional part of a logarithm.

Until a log instruction is implemented, you likely won't find the word
mantissa in the Principles of Operations manual for any IBM processor.

http://publibfp.boulder.ibm.com/cgi.../dz9zr003/9.2.2

-- glen

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