On Fri, 2 May 2025 10:38:10 -0400, Phil Smith III  wrote:

>I can't answer this, but I've seen the x'001234' format called "binary 
>decimal", which always makes my head hurt a bit. OTOH it's unambiguous, which 
>is always A Good Thing. 
>
Unambiguous, but is there hardware support?  And for negative values?  And for 
operations
with mixed packed and "binary decimal"operands.

-- 
gil

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