Newport 2832-C - Page 102

A floating point number is defined as follows:
1. Optional
+ -sign. This defines the sign of the number. If missing,
positive
is assumed.
2. Optional 0
- 9 digits. These digits define the integer portion of the
mantissa.
3. Optional. decimal point. This defines the end of the integer portion of
the mantissa, and indicates that the fractional portion of the mantissa
follows.
4. Optional 0 - 9 digits. These digits define the fractional portion of the
mantissa.
5. Optional exponent indicator, an ASCII
'E' or 'e', followed by a '+' or '-'
(optional), followed by decimal digits.
Examples:
the numbers below all represent the value "1.2"
the numbers below all represent the value "-1.2"
2. <number> defined
as binary.
The 2832-C recognizes unsigned binary numbers in the range
of 0 to 65535,
decimal, or 0 to 11 11 1 11 11 11 11 11 1 binary. Binary numbers are repre-
sented using only the digits 0 and 1. A binary number has the following
format:
Where
#B = mandatory binary number header
<binary>
= binary digits (0's or 1's)
Example:
All numbers below represent the decimal value 129.
#B 1000000 1
#b010000001
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