[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 ...