H-floating-point-base OpenVMS usage:floating_point type: H_floating access: read only mechanism: by value Base. The H-floating-point-base argument is an H-floating number containing the base. longword-integer-exponent OpenVMS usage:longword_signed type: longword (signed) access: read only mechanism: by value Exponent. The longword-integer-exponent argument is a signed longword that contains the signed longword exponent.