Re: A86: Re: Re: OP1

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Subject: Re: A86: Re: Re: OP1
From: Grams Family <grams@netcarrier.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 21:18:22
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At 07:44 PM 3/20/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
>How does the OP format work anyway? I do not understand how the exponenet
>on the OP number is set up..how you calculate the two bytes after the
first...
>could you please clarify that in detail?
>
>-Matt
>
It's pretty simple, it's just biased by FC00 - that is, FC00 (stored as
00,FC) is an exponent of 0. Take the exponent you want and add FC00 to get
those two bytes. The rest of the OP is just the number in BCD (i.e. 123
would be stored as $12,$30).

--Joshua

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