I don't have math or computer science training and I don't understand what happens at W=61. Or do I just have it all wrong?
You start displaying the exponent in addition to the mantissa of the floating point value.
Compare the result of
PUT A HEX16. ;
With the last row of your report.
3FF0000000000000
But why does it start to display the mantissa at row 61 instead of row 53?
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