Re: whole number constants

"glen herrmannsfeldt" <gah@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> robin wrote:
> (snip, I wrote)
>
> >> Many systems go
> >>through the extra work to put zeros in the low bits,
>
> > Such as?
>
> S/360, S/370, and about half way through ESA/390.
>
> Multiply with single precision product was finally
> added not so many years ago.

Multiply with single-precision product was present
right from the very beginning of S/360.
If you wanted a SP product, you used MER or ME followed by
LER, AER, STE, AE, SE, ME etc, which ignored the superfluous 24 bits.

> -- glen