GOST 10859 (1964) is a standard of the
Soviet Union which defined how to encode data on
punched cards. This standard allowed a variable
word size, depending on the type of data being encoded, but only uppercase characters.
These include the non-ASCII “decimal exponent symbol” ⏨. It was used to express
real numbers in
scientific notation. For example: 6.0221415⏨23.
The ⏨ character was also part of the
ALGOL programming language specifications and was incorporated into the then German character encoding standard
ALCOR. GOST 10859 also included numerous other non-ASCII characters/symbols useful to ALGOL programmers, e.g.: ∨, ∧, ⊃, ≡, ¬, ≠, ↑, ↓, ×, ÷, ≤, ≥, °, &, ∅, compare with
ALGOL operators.
Savard, John J. G. (2018) [2005].
"Computer Arithmetic". quadibloc. The Early Days of Hexadecimal.
Archived from the original on 2018-07-16. Retrieved 2018-07-16.
GOST 10859 (1964) is a standard of the
Soviet Union which defined how to encode data on
punched cards. This standard allowed a variable
word size, depending on the type of data being encoded, but only uppercase characters.
These include the non-ASCII “decimal exponent symbol” ⏨. It was used to express
real numbers in
scientific notation. For example: 6.0221415⏨23.
The ⏨ character was also part of the
ALGOL programming language specifications and was incorporated into the then German character encoding standard
ALCOR. GOST 10859 also included numerous other non-ASCII characters/symbols useful to ALGOL programmers, e.g.: ∨, ∧, ⊃, ≡, ¬, ≠, ↑, ↓, ×, ÷, ≤, ≥, °, &, ∅, compare with
ALGOL operators.
Savard, John J. G. (2018) [2005].
"Computer Arithmetic". quadibloc. The Early Days of Hexadecimal.
Archived from the original on 2018-07-16. Retrieved 2018-07-16.