The choice of base

Authors:
W. S. Brown;P. L. Richman
Affiliations:
Bell Telephone Labs, Inc., Murray Hill, NJ;Bell Telephone Labs, Inc., Murray Hill, NJ
Venue:
Communications of the ACM
Year:
1969

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Abstract

A digital computer is considered, whose memory words are composed of N r-state devices plus two sign bits (two state devices). The choice of base &bgr; for the internal representation of floating-point numbers on such a computer is discussed. It is shown that in a certain sense &bgr; = r is best.