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October 15th, 1956

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by: gah4 - Sat, 15 Oct 2022 17:40 UTC

The date on the manual for the IBM 704 manual is
October 15th, 1956.

So, 66 years ago today.

I was remembering in another thread that the allowed
input forms for E, F, and G format include values with
exponent sign but no E. 70.+1 for example.

This is still in the standard now, though rarely used.