Commodore PET User Manual page 332

Byte:
3 4 5 6 7
Number Exponent ±MSB Fraction LSB
1E+38 255 22 118 153 83
1E+10
162
21 2 249 0
1000
138
122 0 0 0
1 129
0 0 00
.01 122
35
215 10 62
1E-4
115 81 183 23 90
lE 62
60 229 8 101
1E-39 0
32 0 0 0
0 0
0
0 0 0
-1
129
128 0 0 0
-1000 138
250 0
0
0
-lE+10
162
149
2
249
0
-1E+38 255 150 118 153 83
The following short program allows you to examine floating point
representations for any numbers. Line 10 inputs a number that vou enter from
the keyboard. terminating with a RETURN key. Line 20 points to the beginning of
variables +2 to go pa st the two-byte variable name. Line 30 prints the number
that was input. followed by the five bytes PEEKed from the variable table. The pro-
gram is continuous; to end. enter a null line (RETURN key only).
10lNPUTA
20 X=PEEK(43)*256+PEEK(42)+2
30 PRINT A;" =" ;PEEK(X) ;PEEK(X+l) ;PEEK(X+2) ;PEEK(X+3) ;PEEK(X+4)
40 GOTO 10
Integer Variable Format
7 6 5
4
3 2
2nd
char
+128
or 128
15t
char
+128
Byte:
r---"T"""':o:--:"-r--"""--
Byte 1 contains the first character of the variable name shifted (+1281.
Byte 2 contains the second character of the variable name shifted (+128), or
if there is no second character, byte 2 contains 128. An integer variable is
denoted by variable names having ASCII values of 176 or higher. The % nota-
tion is dropped from the variable name. Bytes 3 and 4 contain the value of
the integer in high-byte, low-byte order. (Note that this value is not an address
and does not conform to the reverse standard for pointers). The value is stored in
twos complement format
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that the high-order bit (bit 7 of byte 3) represents
the sign. O=positive. and 1=negative. The remaining three bytes are not used
and are set to zeros.
The following are sorne examples of integer representations stored in
the Variable Area. You can use the same 4-line program to look at integer
number representations after changing A to A% in Iines 10 and 30.
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