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assumes generMly that for an3" number the places to the right of those kept in the machine are zero, ~ the use of this normalization for floating-point numbers appears to have no serious disadvantages over the usual one. Offhand, it does not seem that it should pose any" serious hardware problem either. Similar operations are performed simply on the I B M 7030, using the left-zeros counter automatically invoked during floating-point operations
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