Ascii Transfer Format; Integer Format; Floating-Point Number Format - Agilent Technologies E5071C Manual

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ASCII Transfer Format

When you select the ASCII transfer format as the data transfer format,
numbers are transferred as ASCII bytes, each of which corresponds to one
of the formats shown below. Note that numbers are separated from one
another with a comma (,) in accordance with the IEEE 488.2 specification.
Numeric data strings vary in length. Keep this in mind when you
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extract some data from retrieved numeric data strings in your
program.

Integer Format

The figure below shows this format. Numbers are expressed as integers.
For example, 201 is expressed as "+201" or "201."
Integer format

Floating-Point Number Format

The figure below shows this format. Numbers are expressed with floating
points. For example, 1000 is expressed as "+1.00000000000E+003."
Floating-point number format
Binary Transfer Format
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