36-bit Systems
Radix-50 in 36-bit systems was commonly used in symbol tables for assemblers or compilers which supported 6-character symbol names. This left 4 bits to encode properties of the symbol.
Radix-50 was not normally used in 36-bit systems for encoding ordinary character strings; file names were normally encoded as six six-bit characters and full ASCII strings as five 7-bit characters and 1 unused bit per 36-bit word.
| Most significant bits |
Least significant bits | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 000 | 001 | 010 | 011 | 100 | 101 | 110 | 111 | |
| 000 | space | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| 001 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E |
| 010 | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M |
| 011 | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U |
| 100 | V | W | X | Y | Z | . | $ | % |
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