Donald B. MacMillan, Richard H. Stark, "Floating Decimal" Calculation on the IBM Card Programmed Electronic Calculator, Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation, Vol. 5, No. 34 (Apr., 1951), pp. 86-92
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