[Editor's note: For an intro to floating-point math, see Tutorial: Floating-point arithmetic on FPGAs. For a comparison of fixed- and floating-point hardware, see Fixed vs. floating point: a ...

Many numerical applications typically use floating-point types to compute values. However, in some platforms, a floating-point unit may not be available. Other platforms may have a floating-point unit ...

These formats are not discussed in detail in this chapter because the EBCDIC character-encoding system is their only host-specific aspect. converts EBCDIC character data to octal representation. All ...

These informats are not discussed in detail in this section because the EBCDIC character-encoding system is their only host-specific aspect. reads standard character data. All the information that you ...

In the computer, all data are represented as binary digits (bits), and eight binary digits make up one byte. For example, the upper case letter A is 0101001. Numbers however can take several forms.