Re: Math functions? (Particularly transcendental ones)

[Michael G Schwern]

On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 02:55:36PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
> zap is an ibm 360/370/390 assembler op code and i bet they
> trademarked/patented/whatevered its name. :)
> 
> Zero and Add Packed.
> 
> gawd, i can't believe i remembered that. i don't recall exactly what it
> does but i think it was decimal math (packed decimal).

>From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (06 Jun 01) [foldoc]:

  Zero and Add Packed
  
     <language> (ZAP) An {IBM 360}/370 {assembly language}
     instruction used when performing {packed arithmatic} to
     initialise an {accumulator}.


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Ooops, fatal mutation in the test script.