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==Data formats==
The S/360 architecture defines formats for characters, integers, decimal integers and hexadecimal floating point numbers. Character and integer instructions are mandatory, but decimal and floating point instructions are part of the Decimal arithmetic and [[Floating-point arithmetic]] features.
* '''Characters''' are stored as 8-bit bytes.
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