GOST 10859


GOST 10859 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 . 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.
The Delete character| character served the same function as the in 7-bit ASCII.

4-bit code: Binary-coded decimal

5-bit code: with BCD &; mathematical operators

6-bit code: with only Cyrillic upper-case letters

7-bit code: Cyrillic and Latin upper-case letters

6-bit code: with only Latin upper-case letters