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Re: Odd/Even packed numbers.

I apologize.  The diagram is cut off.  Please look at the web page to see
what was supposed to be included in this post.


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-------Original Message-------

From: midrange-l@midrange.com
Date: Friday, November 29, 2002 02:39:01 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Odd/Even packed numbers.

Here is how zoned and signed numbers came to be the same: A number was a
single punch, but a zone punch with it made it a minus number.

>From http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/cards/codes.html :

"The original punched card coding used by Hollerith allowed coding of only a

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