[BBC-Micro] Converting numeric representations

[Jonathan Graham Harston]

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Peter Craven wrote:
> In programming, changing the format of a floating-point number
> so the left-most digit in the mantissa is not a zero.
 
How should describe what I'm doing in
http://mdfs.net/Software/CommandSrc/BasUtils/Vars/VList111.s and
http://beebwiki.jonripley.com/Denormalising_a_number ?
 
As normalising is moving the mantissa until the top bit is
nonzero, the word denormalising seems appropriate for moving the
mantissa (usually the other way) until the exponent is zero.
 
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