IBM Floating Point Architecture - Special Uses

Special Uses

The IBM floating-point format is used in:

  • SAS 5 Transport files (.XPT) as required by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for New Drug Application (NDA) study submissions
  • GRIB (GRIdded Binary) data files to exchange the output of weather prediction models,
  • GDS II (Graphic Database System II) format files, and
  • SEG Y (Society of Exploration Geophysicists Y) format files.

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