Editing IBM 7030 Stretch (section)

===Data formats===
*[[Fixed-point arithmetic|Fixed-point number]]s are variable in length, stored in either binary (1 to 64 bits) or decimal (1 to 16 digits) and either unsigned format or [[Computer number format|sign/magnitude format]]. Fields may straddle word boundaries. In decimal format, digits are variable length bytes (four to eight bits).
*[[Floating-point]] numbers have a 1-bit exponent flag, a 10-bit exponent, a 1-bit exponent sign, a 48-bit magnitude, and a 4-bit sign byte in sign/magnitude format.
*Alphanumeric characters are variable length and can use any character code of 8 bits or less.
*Bytes are variable length (one to eight bits).<ref>{{cite web
 | url = http://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/stretch.html
 | title = IBM Stretch (7030) &mdash; Aggressive Uniprocessor Parallelism
 |date=July 2010 | access-date = 2013-12-07
 | author = Mark Smotherman | publisher = clemson.edu
}}</ref>