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of the 1950s and 1960s, notably the IBM 1620, IBM 1401 and the Honeywell 200 series, could manipulate numbers bound only by available storage, with an extra bit that delimited the value.

Data structure

Numbers can be stored in a fixed-point format, or in a floating-point format as a significand multiplied

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