ASM370 - Re: S/360

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Re: S/360

robin

2006-05-25, 7:59 am

"glen herrmannsfeldt" <gah@barf.ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote in message
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> It is a fractional part, but it isn't (most of the time)
> a logarithm. In the case of the return value from the LOG
> function it would be a mantissa. (Though that would make more
> sense if it was a base 16 log for the S/360 case. Last I knew,
> PL/I had a LOG, LOG10, and LOG2 function

It still has.

> but no LOG16.)

IIRC log16(a) = log2(a)/4

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