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Any implementations of JOSS?

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From: Quadibloc
Date: Tue, 01 May 2018 22:51
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One thing about JOSS is that (unlike FOCAL, which was conventional in 
using normal binary floating-point in software, like most versions of BASIC) it used a binary power of ten exponent with a binary integer mantissa.
Like Intel processors use today for decimal floating-point.
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